Person Quotes

There are ugly aspects to every single person's character. In being truthful, actors do have to show the ugly side of someone's character. We all behave like dicks sometimes.

I'm a very emotional person, and I love feeling things, so I tend to approach things kind of openly.

I also found it funny to think about blackness as the second person. That was just sort of funny. Not the first person, but the second person, the other person.

It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.

I think that being a mom has made me a better person. I'm much more patient and much more chill than I was before.

Utah could elect its first black Republican woman to Congress. In other words, Utah finally got one black person and the first thing they want to do is send her to Washington.

Arnold Rampersad is a really good person. A really good person. As a matter of fact, he came to Stanford when I was Provost.

If you're a positive person, you're an automatic motivator. You can get people to do things you don't think they're capable of.

I do tend to have characters that I guess are in some way loners or dealing with obstacles that they have to confront that ultimately make them a better person in a way.

I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.

I am a very emotional person.

I'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know that I treat people right.

It was great to watch her spin out of control because it makes the average person feel better.

I learned how to be a woman and a good person just by watching and observing my mother.

All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.

Life isn't all that sad. I'm a happy person.

If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.

I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.

Very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears and reads than most people know.

I'm a good person," I said, "because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy them.

I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names.

Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.

Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average person.

I can be a nice person, but if someone is messing with someone I care about, the tougher side comes out a little more.

I didn't elect [Barack] Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time.

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

I'm not a competitive person, so I don't feel any pressure to win. I won't sink into a depression if we don't win.

I do consider myself to be a positive person. I'd much rather have my energy be focused on trying to make the world a better place, than to be bitter or negative.

Heaven would be a very hell to a wicked person.

The reason the Betsy DeVos case was the centerpiece case for the Democrats wasn't about her weakness as a knowledgeable person on education policy.

Every successful person has faced, attacked, and conquered adversity somewhere along the way.

I think of myself as a really happy person.

[Numbers] made me feel like a real person instead of a guy who shows up for two days on a movie, does some funny stuff, and then doesn't see anybody until the premiere.

Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.

There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]

He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights.

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.

If you have a lair then you are probably not a good person.

Generally there is Stigler's law of eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler.

Denzel Washington is a person I will always emulate. I emulate him because he focuses on real life. Because of that he has made me a better person.

The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I'm not the Antonio Banderas, swashbuckling, Pierce Brosnan, smooth-talking type.

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

you might not be the first person l kissed, but you will be the last' Jamie to Claire in Outlander (not word perfect)

I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.

Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person.