Personal Life Quotes - Page 12

• When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Mother, Song, Father

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• I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Home, Shows

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There is an expression-walking with beauty. And I believe that this endless search for beauty in surroundings, in people and one's personal life, is the headstone of travel.

  Juliette de Bairacli Levy

  Believe, Expression, People

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• No one else has an investment in your personal life as you do.

  Matthew Ashimolowo

  Investment

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• This is women's moment to shift the tectonic plates of power on both the personal life and the leadership levels.

  Gloria Feldt

  Levels, Moments, Plates

  Gloria Feldt (2012). “No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power”, p.66, Seal Press

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• I feel like a young adult. In high school I never felt like my professional life and my personal life were at odds, because Rookie felt like the bridge.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Jobs, Teenager, School

  Interview with Grimes, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• I've definitely had my hard partying moments. I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.

  Brett Gelman

  Loneliness, Real, Party

  Source: collider.com

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• Both sides of the political spectrum must one day realize that limitless government intrusion in the economy, in our personal lives, and in the affairs of other nations cannot serve the best interests of America.

  Ron Paul

  Government, America, Political

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• Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works.

  Rick Perry

  Abstinence, My Own, Knows

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• I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, People, Climate

  "Ryan Reynolds Talks Blake Lively, Having A Big Family" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2013.

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• When you're an artist, your personal life and your professional life kind of blend together. I'm writing from home so I don't have an office or anything. I don't know where to draw the line between "Okay, let's stop now and watch American Idol."

  Daryl Wein

  Home, Writing, Artist

  Source: collider.com

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• In my personal life I've made a lot of compromises. I don't live comfortably. I've lived out of a suitcase for the last 15 years. I have lived without a dime to my name, for a very long time.

  Rie Rasmussen

  Years, Names, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology provides moral cover for a life that is not moral. While many people left of center lead fine personal lives, many do not.

  Dennis Prager

  People, Moral, Fine

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• In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

  Stephen Covey

  Self, People, Empowering

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• If you don't identify as a feminist, you're missing out on this whole community that's out there that could really help you with your work, help you with your personal life, and just give you support.

  Jessica Valenti

  Giving, Support, Feminist

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You have to have your personal life, and at the end of the day I think what people forget, especially when you're online, is that you're a person too, right, and that you're not this ideal of feminism, that everything you do like feminism just like falls in your wake.

  Jessica Valenti

  Fall, Thinking, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There are people who will be wanting to apply "Win" to their own, personal life. If you remember only one thing, and I'm going to do it right here, right now because I just happened to come to it, that phrase - if you remember only one thing - there are 125 specific language recommendations in "Win" that can make a difference in your day-to-day lives.

  Frank Luntz

  Winning, Differences, People

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". Interview with Neal Conan, www-s4.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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• I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.

  Alex Karpovsky

  Balance, Trying, Subway

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm one of those people who just doesn't plan my personal life. I plan my professional life.

  Bonnie Raitt

  People, Plans, Professional Life

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have two definitions of success - one on the basketball court and one in my personal life. In basketball, success means making my teammates better, winning basketball games and winning championships. In my personal life, success means being a good father to my sons and raising them to be strong men; taking care of my family and being a good friend; and using my influence to make a difference in the community.

  Dwyane Wade

  Basketball, Strong, Father

  Source: mochamanstyle.com

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• And since our country's founding, we've tried to keep government's heavy hand out of our personal lives, while ensuring that we do the most important thing, which is to protect those who cannot protect themselves.

  Joe Biden

  Country, Hands, Government

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• If I wrote a book, I had to be willing at least to talk about some of my struggles, whether in my personal life, health crises, or the deaths of my parents, because there can too easily be a perception of me that my life just went from A to Z uninterrupted, without any ups and downs, and that's not a fair representation.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Book, Struggle, Parent

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• There is a wonderful book called "Gandhi's Truth," by Erik Erikson, the psychologist. It is a great book. And I remember reading that and thinking about this connection between what we think in our personal lives and how that manifests itself in our politics. Those are two books, just off the top, that I think are sort of representative of reading that I did at that time. I never get a chance to read anymore.

  Barack Obama

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Obama discusses inspiration for book, life". Interview, www.duluthnewstribune.com. December 3, 2006.

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• Some people believe that they should have two different lives, and one is what they show on TV and one is their personal life. I am not that person.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Believe, Should Have, Two

  "Reality TV Star and Author Bethenny Frankel: On Love, Life, and Yoga". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.awaken.com. February 3, 2016.

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• When there's something negative in my life, be it in the art or the music world or in my personal life, I really just want to face it as immediately as possible. I don't run from it. I just want to immerse myself in it, get through it as quickly as possible, understand it, and look into what is positive about it.

  Girl Talk

  Running, Art, World

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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