Persons Quotes
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I'm the only person on Earth who's not afraid to admit that black people are better dancers than white people! I said it, I said it! You were all thinking it, I said it!
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A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.
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You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.
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If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.
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You should see my house. It's sort of explosive. Like a crazy person lives there.
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Facebook and Twitter and these other social sites bring every, I mean, 140 characters. I mean, I'm on Twitter and I have fun. But I don't think anybody learns anything about me as a person.
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A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
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Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one you are with; you are not liking the person you have become.
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In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
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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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We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things.
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Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.
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When you're younger, you think you're in competition with everyone. You think everyone's success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of. You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you're in competition with is yourself.
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Most forgers are caught because they tell the wrong person about what they do.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.
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He [Reagan] was who he was, and it was not complicated. You didn't get a different person in an interview.
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Dreams are more original than images we see in the media, and are surprisingly unaffected by media. For example, the average person watches several hours of television per day, yet dreams are rarely about shows we have watched or news of the day.
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World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.
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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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Never be afraid to let people go if they're not right; often that's the only way you can make room for the right person.
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Anytime I feel my feathers ruffle off of someone else's success, I have to check myself. It's normally fear based or ego related and it's my daily work to let it go and focus on me, because that's the only person I can control and make grow.
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There are little Indian girls out there who look up to me, and I never want to belittle the honor of being an inspiration to them. But while I’m talking about why I’m so different, white male show runners get to talk about their art. I always get asked, ‘Where do you get your confidence?’ I think people are well meaning, but it’s pretty insulting. Because what it means to me is, ‘You, Mindy Kaling, have all the trappings of a very marginalized person. You’re not skinny, you’re not white, you’re a woman. Why on earth would you feel like you’re worth anything?’
