- Passion
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.
- Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this.
- Bush Administration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
America spends a fortune on drugs: more per person than any other nation on earth, even though Americans are no healthier than the citizens of other advanced nations.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an appalling person to teach. At 14, I was pretty advanced. I would read all the books in a few minutes, and I was bored. It must have been awful for a teacher to have a bright boy who's giving them his undivided indifference.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I die, I want to be the only person in the world not to have seen 'The Sound Of Music.'
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no concerns - I had no reason to have concerns based on what was available to me about North's contacts with the private sector people, but I didn't think a CIA person should do it.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020