Persons Quotes
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I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.
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It makes me feel like a very special person, that I'm able to make my living with my imagination. I developed a big respect for my calling while I was in school, and it remains with me to this day.
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Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.
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Writing humor is not something every single person can do.
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Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.
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My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .
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People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.
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You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this.
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Today a lot of things are so celebrity-oriented; it's only because it's celebrity and the photograph is lost. To me it's important to have an image that is a photograph first, not about necessarily who that person is.
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Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.
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For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.
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I'm a very spiritual person. And it affects my work greatly.
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The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.
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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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There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it once lived still casts its sound on all who sleep there and enters their throats.
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I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.
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Do not be angry with an ungrateful person; probably they are confused or inexperienced.
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When you choose to do a role, I think you can either be that person or have the potential of being that person.
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I just feel - specifically about that holiday - why is it just one day that you have to tell the person that you love how much you love them? I think that is a little silly. I am much more the girl that likes the spontaneous.
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Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.
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To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.
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The only way to be happy and be a more enjoyable person to be around is to embrace what you've got. Everyone has issues about their body, but I feel confident now. I'm healthy and happy.
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Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.
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I love to walk in the forest and take my bike. I love to watch the little birdies. I'm a green person.
