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- Nov 07, 2020
Person Quotes
On character, focus and what makes a person who they are.
These quotes describe personal identity in different lights: spirituality that exists outside organized religion, competitiveness aimed inward rather than at others, and the wide or narrow focus people bring to their goals. For more, see our I Am quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very private person, a very bookish person. The social world of Hollywood I know nothing about because I choose not to take part.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
- Employs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't base an industry solely on one person. That's a very vulnerable business strategy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play.
- Beyond
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look.... as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the enjoyment of their rights, either of person or property.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.
- Nov 07, 2020