Persons Quotes
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When we seek the gaze of another, it isn't always our partner we're turning away from, but the person we have ourselves become.
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If you have to sit the whole evening with the most famous person in the world and he is a goddamn bore, you will want to run away and if you sit with a person who's completely unknown, but he's fascinating, you are delighted.
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I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.
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The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.
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Soul ties. The thing that can make you hear an old-school slow jam and think of somebody you haven’t seen in years. Soul ties. The thing that makes old people who’ve been together for years finish each other’s sentences. Don’t you wish mama had told you when you were young that, when you lie with someone, you lie not just with her body but also with her soul? And whatever condition the other person’s soul is in, you are guaranteed to take a piece with you—whether you want to or not. Instead of being amazed at her booty, you should have focused on her mind.
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I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.
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Don't be what you're told to be. Follow your own path. Be your own person. Don't get held down by everyone else.
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Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him
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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.
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It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough.
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One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.
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I'm a huge fan of [Elijah Wood] work and a huge fan of him, as a person. What's great about getting to know him is that he's just a really lovely, regular guy.
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It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.
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The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality.
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There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.
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It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
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I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.
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Strange how someone you once loved can become just another person you once knew.
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I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.
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I'm the kind of person who would rather rock in my rocking chair when I'm old and regret a few things that I did than to sit there and regret that I never tried.
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There are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.
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I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.
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I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.
