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- Nov 07, 2020
Personality Quotes
What makes someone unmistakably themselves.
These personality quotes range from a public figure reflecting on why he's comfortable speaking before Congress, to actors who accept that certain traits will always come through on screen whether they intend it or not. A couple of entries push back on the very idea of having a public personality at all. See Character for a closely related theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Devise
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- Nov 07, 2020
To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.
- Nov 07, 2020
But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it's truly awesome and very powerful.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.
- Capitol Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama's ability to use his personality to push folks, whether on Capitol Hill or in Europe, means that he has to stay popular. What happens if he loses that popular mandate?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.
- Arnold
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative.
- Consulting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle conceived Sherlock Holmes, why didn't he give the famous consulting detective a few more quirks: a wooden leg, say, and an Oedipus complex? Well, Holmes didn't need many physical tics or personality disorders; the very concept of a consulting detective was still fresh and original in 1887.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with who I am, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time tempering my personality. Whatever job I have next, I'm going to be somebody who wants to get things done.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always said I've had a big personality, and I've always said I'm a pushy broad, and I've always said I want to get things done.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want Violet to be proud of every little thing that is her - her hair, her body. We're all different, and from early on, I've always said she has a very confident personality, and I want her to maintain that.
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020