Person Quotes
Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen.
I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don't have it in me. I'm not a competitive person, and I'm also really private.
I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.
You are young, and in love. Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.
I tried to find myself and become a happy person without all the drugs and alcohol. And then I got back to Stockholm and I got pissed one night and had to sing.
How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.
That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?
I have two younger sisters and I'm such an advocate of owning who you are as a person. Don't be ashamed or intimidated. Never feel like you are not amazing.
One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.
We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom.
The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.
I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.
Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.
What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.
Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.
At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player. I am a better person because of my failures and disgraces.
You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.
Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
I'm probably the worst person in the world to give advice to puppeteers. My whole attitude towards puppets from the beginning was not one of love, but it was like anti-puppetry.
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
Robin Williams was the kind of generous person who would do things but not want to receive public credit for it.
The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.
You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.
I did other stuff before then, but I was sexually active at 20. I'm glad I waited for the right person, because you look back and you go, 'That girl was bats– crazy. I'm glad I didn't go there.'
The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.
Be thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person.
Be friendly first. Service starts with a friendly person with a friendly smile, who offers friendly words first. How friendly are you?
Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.
In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.
I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.
I think I'm a real good person off the field. I've got good character traits, I go to Church often, and I do community service. I think I'm a really good role model.
If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.