Persons Quotes
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I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged.
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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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I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.
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A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.
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For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.
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Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose this kind of life. I'm an incredibly open person, though - I'll tell anyone anything.
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Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
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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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I have to admit, in the end, I like to surrender to someone; the person I love.
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Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages.
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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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If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion.
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Whether I'm single or in a relationship, I'm the same person. The same human being.
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[Islam] is the dynamic conviction that a person's spiritual and worldly responsibilities are one and the same, that an individuals duty to the community is indistinguishable from his or her duty to God.
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Normally I'm not like a big TV person. I never use my DVR.
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I'm a MySpace person.
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A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.
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I've learned to deal with stress. In fact, things that would make the next person go over a cliff don't even make my radar anymore.
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God knows what each one of us is dealing with. He knows our pressures. He knows our conflicts. And He has made a provision for each and every one of them. That provision is Himself in the person of the Holy Spirit, indwelling us and empowering us to respond rightly.
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There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.
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No just person ever became quickly rich.
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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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I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.
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The person who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.
