Personality Quotes - Page 32

• It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right to be.

  Alastair Sim

  Happiness, Success, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

  Norman Cousins

  Math, Two, Trying

  1979 In the Daily Telegraph, 17 Jul.

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• The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Thinking, Today

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• There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

  Fanny Burney

  Running, Hate, Jail

  'Camilla' (1796) bk. 3, ch. 12

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• There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Miracle, Oscars, Absolutely Nothing

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• To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

  Carl Jung

  Learning, Shock, Terrible

  Carl Gustav Jung, Mary Foote (1976). “The visions seminars: from the complete notes of Mary Foote”

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• It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know it's even you?

  Claire Danes

  Mean, Thinking, Conformity

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• Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Happens

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.121, Northwestern University Press

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• Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop the mask, at least for a moment, so he can capture on his film their real, undistorted personality and character.

  Philippe Halsman

  Real, Character, Self

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• [T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.

  William James

  Differences, Important, Littles

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• I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Travel, Rivers, Grandfather

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• Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Peace, Self, Lost

  Alfred North Whitehead (1966). “Adventure of ideas”

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• There are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Hollywood

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• If you look into their [chimpanzees] eyes, you know you're looking into a thinking mind. They teach us that we are not the only beings with personalities, minds capable of rational thought, altruism and a sense of humor. That leads to new respect for other animals, respect for the environment and respect for all life.

  Jane Goodall

  Eye, Science, Animal

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• Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.

  Claud Cockburn

  Country, Couple, Divorce

  Claud Cockburn (1967). “I, Claud ...: the autobiography of Claud Cockburn”

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• It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.

  Germaine Greer

  Believe, Long, Missing

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.16, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

  Samora Machel

  Revolution, Fame

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• I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

  Miranda Richardson

  Design, Eccentric, Belgians

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• I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my personal life-every two years or so. Taking risks gives me energy. I can't help it, it's my personality. I'd like to think it's not really a compulsion toward high risks, but the spirit of an entrepreneur.

  Jay Chiat

  Thinking, Agency, Years

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• I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.

  Bob Geldof

  Difficult, Wit

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• When I started coming to do shows in New York, New York had a pretty electric energy then. It was the early-nineties, and there was a lot of really fun theatrical types that were designing, and so the runway kind of became this stage for all of these mega model personalities to flaunt their stuff.

  Shalom Harlow

  New York, Fun, Design

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• If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

  Richard Petty

  Two, People, Guy

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• I can't tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many reasons. They could have personality conflicts. They could have misunderstandings. Lots of stuff can happen.

  Alberto Salazar

  Athlete, Stuff, Conflict

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 5, 2012.

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• I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mother, People, Remember

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• I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

  Sandra Brown

  Writing, Careers, Live Theatre

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