- Feel
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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
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being gay has nothing to do with the three gold medals or the three MVPs or the four championships I've won. I'm still the same person. I'm Sheryl.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a goal-driven person.
- Nov 07, 2020
Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask.
- Respect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are inhibited from aggression by the presence of another face, another person. We're aware that we're with a human being. On the Internet, we are disinhibited from taking into full account that we are in the presence of another human being.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a real 'go, go' person... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are the ones out there competing, and yet we read articles and listen to people making accusations about Jamaica, and there's nobody there to take a microphone, be a big person and say, 'What you're saying is wrong, and it's a lie.'
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came here in 2008, nobody knew who I was. I didn't know who I was. I was just enjoying the moment and I won. So, now, coming back being the person I am with all the accomplishments, it kind of puts things in perspective.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1950s, the average person saw science as something that solved problems. With the advent of nuclear weapons and pollution, the idealistic aura around scientific research has been replaced by cynicism.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I'd look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm personally more of a low-maintenance type of person. I want things to be easy and quick, especially when it comes to getting dressed.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw what was wonderful about human companionship. Before that, I was quite content to be alone, to be a solitary wandering person, and I thought I always would be. Love changed that.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the traits in my characters are exaggerations of things I see in myself. But in 'How Should a Person Be?' I wasn't trying to write about myself so much as a combination of myself and these women I was seeing in our culture.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020