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A person can destroy me with two words. It can just be the way they say them, the inflection.
When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.
Nobody likes to throw stuff away. It's just antithetical to our sense of being a person. But we're all habituated to that way of living today.
I may be the only person in the world who has my own embryonic cells growing in a petri dish.
I met Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin when I hung out with Michael Lang just before the Woodstock Festival. They were as charismatic in person as they were on stage.
I do not view myself as a psychedelic person but as a yogi. Although most link the Beatles with bringing awareness of yoga to the public, it was myself who actually brought yoga into the mainstream in the United States.
I met Carl Sagan quite a few times - a fantastic and amazing person. I love him. Neil deGrasse Tyson is a good friend, too.
You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.
I don't talk about myself in the third person. When I start doing that, you'll know I'm having an out-of-body experience.
The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.
All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it's all memoir. Even when I'm writing about the oil spill in the Gulf, it's all first person there.
When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't.
Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I'm not a details person. I go for the big sweep.
I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.
An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.
I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off.
In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.
My favourite superhero? I have a soft spot for Batman, because he doesn't have any super powers - he's just a person. And he's pretty dark.
Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.
I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.
When I do fall in love, I'll go to the ends of the earth for that person. I'd lay down on a carpet of nails for the person I love.
Divorce isn't just the person, it's everything that goes with it - your kids, the adjustment, everything.
I'm the most awkward person in the world, but onstage, I'm completely fine. I could run around in a thong and not care.
I like doing everything. That's why I came to Pixar, as opposed to Disney or any other studio - it's small. At the time I started, I was, like, the 10th person in the animation group, and we all had to do everything. That's the way I like it, keeping it fresh.
I was close to John simply because I liked him as a person. He liked me as a person. We spent a lot of times at one another's houses back in Liverpool. We spent a lot of time together in Germany.
The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.
Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.
Video is so primal. When you can hear a person talking about the project, and can see his or her passion, it is unbelievably powerful. I don't want to make it seem like projects without a video fail.
I'm a family-based person, even though we didn't exactly have a very happy family. I was never in any doubt that this was a centre of writing.
I'd like to shapeshift into any person, to understand a new perspective, and hope that that changes my perspective.
Any actor would love to just pick up a script and be like, 'I can connect to this person, and I can see myself playing him.'
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that's very, very difficult.
My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.
Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face.
If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.
I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.
All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person singular.
I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.
There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.
When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
I'm against all of us looking homogenous, where there's only one kind of a template of a person.
Certainly, I, as an audience, am stricken with terror if I see only two people onstage. And one person, I think, is even harder for people to take.
I always like the physical comedy because I actually do a lot of it in my own life, but not on purpose. I am the klutziest person on the planet.
I've got more bruises and scars on my legs than should be there. And I'm a physical person. That's why I like action movies. I like to get real into it all and get real down and dirty.
I'm a plus-size person, so when I tried to go into the Gap, I used to just walk out of there shaking my head because they have nothing that fits me.
I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.
At big championships it's not the fastest person, it's the person who gets it right on the day.
I don't think any of us that are white can ever fully understand what it's like to be a black person in America today.
I don't really have a 'favorite' person to play with. I like to play with the player that is playing the best, but it doesn't always work out that way.
The mark of spirituality is the fragrance of Christ in our lives and the fragrance of Christ in every aspect of who we are as a person.
This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.
Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.
It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.
People had J.F.K. all wrong. They thought of him as a dashing, deciding type. He was an extremely hesitant person who checked the ice in front of him all the time.
To a person of analytical ability, perceptive enough to realise that mathematical equipment was a powerful sword in economics, the world of economics was his or her oyster in 1935. The terrain was strewn with beautiful theorems begging to be picked up and arranged in unified order.
If not for music in my life as a young person, who knows where I would have focused my energy.
Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.
It's tough - and I'm not the first person to say this - but cliches exist because they actually happen in real life.
Certainly on a date, I've been over-focused on, 'Is this person comfortable or not?' and then deciding for them that they are not comfortable and I will help them, which is death for a first date.
The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.
If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.
Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.'
I'm more experienced, I've won titles at Juventus. I've been playing with big players like when I started at Man United, of course. I came back. I've not come back from the Academy now; I went to play somewhere else, and I came back, I would say, as a person, as an adult.
If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera.
Andy was a nonverbal person; you couldn't get directions out of him. All he knew was what was modern in art was what wasn't art: The telephone was art, the pizza was art, but what was hanging on walls in museums wasn't art.
I hate bananas. I just hate them. But I also think a banana suit is the funniest fruit costume a person can wear.
As far as the Yanukovych administration is concerned, you will see, if you do any fact-checking, that I was the person that negotiated the framework which is based upon which Ukraine is now a part of Europe. That was my role. That's what I did. And when it was completed, I left.
We've noted that the Clinton camp was the first to get it out there, trying to say there was something untoward about the speech Melania Trump gave. It's just another example, as far as we're concerned, that when Hillary Clinton is threatened by a female, the first thing she does is try to destroy the person.
You can't change somebody's character, but you can change the way a person presents themselves.
The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party.
I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.
The economics favour one-man comedy shows: all you need is one person, a microphone and a PA system. But I'm pleased so many people are making a living out of comedy - it's a wonderful business to be in.
My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.
I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.
I'm the only person who's ever opened the Oscars or done a spot on the Oscars without a script and having it on autocue.
There is hardly a person alive who does not want to know 'what happened next,' in any context.
The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.
I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I write in coffee shops.
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