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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
- Nov 07, 2020
It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I was the best broad jumper on our team, and I kind of thought that when I got to MIT, I'd probably still be the best broad jumper, 'cause why do broad jumpers come to MIT? But it turned out to actually be the other way around. There was another person in my class who could jump about 3 feet further than I could.
- Nov 07, 2020
When a young person is sent 'up the river,' we need to remember that all rivers can change course.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The person you are at 13 or 17 is not the person you are at 30, 40, or 50. Everyone old enough to look back on his or her teenage years knows this.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.
- Curious
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
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- Nov 07, 2020