Persons Quotes
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The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.
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Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
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Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.
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If you are with the right person, it brings out the best version of you.
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You know... the only person I really had to please after a point was the MPAA. Because Lions' Gate was like, hey, whatever you can get away with is fine, we don't care.
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Martin [Luther King] wasn't, basically, the kind of person - certainly at the stage that I knew him closest - wasn't the kind of person you could engage in dialogue with, certainly, if the dialogue questioned the almost exclusive rightness of his position.
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I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.
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You know what guys do? They stand up for people. You know why? Two reasons. It's right. And it feels good. Even if the person doesn't know what you did. Maybe especially then.
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It's easier to be with somebody. But it's better to be single if you're with the wrong person.
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Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.
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We only get to be one person; we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.
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Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.
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I've never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to be a famous person or anything like that, and I think my fans know that as well.
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No one single person is going to make each other happy, and it's foolish to expect the other person to do that.
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You do not need to be different from who you are. You only need to be more of the person you already are.
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The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.
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Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.
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I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
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A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge.
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I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.
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The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was handed me a few days since by Senator Sumner. Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it.
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Thus did I keep my person fresh and new, My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state, Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast.
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I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's the person you want to hear from the most.
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Oftentimes, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.
