Persons Quotes
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Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.
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In every circle of friends there's always that one person everyone secretly hates. Don't have one? Then it's probably you.
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I used to be the youngest person on the set [of Bored To Death]. Now I'm very often the oldest person on the set. I feel lucky about that, to be honest. Lena [Dunham], by the way is a doll to me. So much fun to work with and really open.
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Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness.
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It is better to love every person, than to wait for one person to love you.
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I'm a regular person with an extraordinary job.
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The 'phenomenal concept' issue is rather different, I think. Here the question is whether there are concepts of experiences that are made available to subjects solely in virtue of their having had those experiences themselves. Is there a way of thinking about seeing something red, say, that you get from having had those experiences, and so isn't available to a blind person?
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There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.
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I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.
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When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.
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Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.
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Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have a God complex, well this person has a Satan complex. And the doctor chooses to treat him scientifically.
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As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.
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You can have more, be more and do more because you can change the person you are.
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If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.
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Person-to-person, most people are honest.
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But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier.
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Most forgers are caught because they tell the wrong person about what they do.
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A person is not really gone until everyone who knew them is gone.
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When I was acting, as a hobby, I would devour popular science books and keep up-to-date about what was going on in the science community. And then, suddenly my hobby became my job. I didn't one day say, "I'm not acting. I'm now going to be a science person."
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You should see my house. It's sort of explosive. Like a crazy person lives there.
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When you speak a foreign language, you become someone else. If you aren't used to speaking a language, and you start speaking it again, for the first few sentences you'll find yourself in very strange shape, because you're still the person who was speaking the first language. But if you keep speaking that language, you will become the person who corresponds to it.
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You can be a good person without any racial intent and still want to keep the flag. That's what I learned in my time in the south.
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Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.
