Persons Quotes
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Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.
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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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I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.
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I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.
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I have yet to meet a person who has not felt betrayed.
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If you live your life only following the path you think is approved or acceptable, or the one you think is expected of you, you’ll be making a huge mistake. Not a single successful person… has ever done great things because they played it safe. You’ve got to be true to yourself.
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A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
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You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.
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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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Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact.
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I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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One person's disaster is another person's talking point.
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility.
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Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it.
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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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At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to me encouragingly, 'Come on, Stephen - you're not singing. Have a go!' 'Believe me, Paul, you don't want me to,' I said. Besides, I was having a much better time listening to him. 'No. Go on!' So I joined in the chorus. 'You're right,' Paul McCartney conceded. 'You can't sing.
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To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.
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I'm a very spiritual person. And it affects my work greatly.
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You gotta know who you are, I think, as a person, I'm a laidback guy. I'm very simple. It's simplicity with me. Everything else, having the 10 cars or the 20 cars is ludicrous.
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You cannot assume that somebody can define you. You cannot assume that the other person is right. No matter how they say it to you, no matter with how much force they say, ‘Oh my god, you’ll never make it; oh my god, you’re not bright; you could never do this’—that’s one person. I can’t tell you how many people told me I would never be an actor.
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...you canʹt always choose how you love a person. Love isnʹt logical or fair. It just happens.
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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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It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police incidents, because of the poverty we grow up in as African-Americans. So, it's just cheaper in this country if you're born a Caucasian than being born a Black person.
