Persons Quotes
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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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I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million.
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I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.
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The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who didn't have a chance.
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I think that all of the scars and all of the layers that I've built over the years made me the person that I am today, and I'm pretty happy about that person.
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Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs. I mean, come on, that person should be the president.
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Writing humor is not something every single person can do.
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My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world.
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Maybe I see myself with kids, given the right place and right moment, with the right person.
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While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.
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No person ever gave me nothing but God.
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You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one.
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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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...When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to try to feel out what he or she really wants the room to be and to understand, if possible, what "memory," old or new, has brought this idea about.
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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.
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That's good advice for any young person to remember who aspires to leadership in corporate or public life. Develop a thick skin when it comes to the press. Remember you're never as bad-or as good-as the press says you are.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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.
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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.
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No two journeys are alike. Nobody can pretend to know the journey another person takes to achieve his dreams.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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I was diagnosed with full-body cancer. I am the healthiest person you know. You know I do it all. I take vitamins. I grew my own food. I do everything. And it didn't fit, and it was so awful.
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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.
