Persons Quotes
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I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel about their work. And I, for the most part, am pretty happy person. But, yeah. I go through definite periods of time where I'm not funny. I'm not good. I'm - I don't feel original.
Will Ferrell
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I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.
Dolly Parton
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Writing humor is not something every single person can do.
Celia Rivenbark
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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.
Michael Moore
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I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.
Roland Joffe
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There are some things you can give another person, and some things you cannot give him, except as he is willing to reach out and take them, and pay the price of making them a part of himself. This principle applies to studying, to developing talents, to absorbing knowledge, to acquiring skills, and to the learning of all the lessons of life.
Richard L. Evans
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When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.
Moby
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The fact is that I am always thinking of something to build. A new book, radio show, plans for a trip somewhere. I am not a very happy person but I feel pretty even when I am working, so I guess that is how I am wired.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.
Molly Parker
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Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person.
William Fritz
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There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.
Humphry Davy
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Well, I'm not a natural gym person myself, anyway.
Ray Stevenson
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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.
Willemijn Verkaik
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Until you have a child, you won't really understand that you would actually throw yourself in front of a bus for your child. Like, you don't really get it. Like, it's like, 'Hell no.' You know, 'She's only two. I can make another one.' You know? But, you know, you have a baby, and then you actually care about this person.
Russell Peters
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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.
Tommy Lee Jones
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If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.
Vivienne Westwood
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I'm not always thinking and working ... I think a leader has to really be a balanced, whole and healthy person personally in order to be the best leader on the job.
Mike Duke
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The most important phase of living with a person: the respect for that person as an individual.
Millicent Carey McIntosh
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Courage is doing something despite the fear, and I've worked hard on being a courageous person.
Sara Blakely
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I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other words, knowledge not of the sort where you subscribe to Scientific American, and it validates what you believe, but cosmologies constructed out of immediate experiences that are found to be always applicable.
Terence McKenna
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There is a consciousness as an agent of one's own destiny as a person in America, there are things that can be done, there are advantages and benefits which exist that are directly related to - and even rest upon - white privilege.
Michael Eric Dyson
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To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
Eudora Welty