Persons Quotes
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If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.
Umar
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Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.
Beverley Nichols
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If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.
Karl Lagerfeld
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There are little Indian girls out there who look up to me, and I never want to belittle the honor of being an inspiration to them. But while I’m talking about why I’m so different, white male show runners get to talk about their art. I always get asked, ‘Where do you get your confidence?’ I think people are well meaning, but it’s pretty insulting. Because what it means to me is, ‘You, Mindy Kaling, have all the trappings of a very marginalized person. You’re not skinny, you’re not white, you’re a woman. Why on earth would you feel like you’re worth anything?’
Mindy Kaling
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I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know the letter writer.
Emily Yoffe
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One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
Andrew Solomon
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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.
Danny Robert Worsnop
Asking Alexandria
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I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.
Whitney Houston
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Brian Tracy
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People think that as a celebrity, you have to have this sort of mystique about you, but I'm probably the realest person you'll ever meet.
Nick Cannon
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For me, how the person with me feels is more important than how I feel. I like making people around me feel happy.
Lee Seung-hyun
Big Bang
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There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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How will a person know, Selina, when the soul that has the affinity with hers is near it?" She answered, "She will know. Does she look for air, before she breathes it? This love will be guided to her; and when it comes, she will know. And she will do anything to keep that love about her, then. Because to lose it will be like a death to her.
Sarah Waters
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When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology it isn't that through the obtaining of real knowledge that he knows it all, but he suddenly realizes that he doesn't know it all.
Richard Feynman
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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.
Alice Mattison
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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.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.
Tony Kushner
