Personality Quotes - Page 2

• I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.

  Tupac Shakur

  Love, Rapper, Hip Hop

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• The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

  Peter De Vries

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

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• When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Eye, Soul

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.17, Prestwick House Inc

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• The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

  John Dewey

  Spiritual, Choices Made, Discovery

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.351, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

  Mae West

  Love, Women, Space

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

  Amy Lowell

  Art, Men, Expression

  Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.7, Ardent Media

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• Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.

  Natalie Portman

  Cute, Shining, Hug

  "Natalie Portman--Cluttered and Loving It". Interview with Ted Demme, Ingrid Sischy, www.oocities.org. March 1996.

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• You know like it has its own personality, its own character.

  Marc Newson

  Character, Europe, Knows

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• Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

  Erich Fromm

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Men

  Man for Himself (1947) ch. 4

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• Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Poetry, Individual Talent, Emotion

  The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

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• Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

  Laurette Taylor

  Beauty, Imagination, Important

  "The Quality You Need Most", Green Book Magazine, April, 1914.

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• To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

  John Strachan

  Teacher, School, Ends

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• Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

  Alexis Carrel

  Character, Indispensable, Humans

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• I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

  Leif Garrett

  Extremist

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• Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included; your name, your identity, everything, because this has been given to you by others - if you drop all that has been given by others, you will have a totally different quality to your being: innocence. This will be a crucifixion of the persona, the personality, and there will be a resurrection of your innocence. You will become a child again, reborn.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Names, Quality

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• Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.

  Trevor Dunn

  People, Different, Aspect

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• My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Self, Suffering, Obsession

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• Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

  Julie London

  Kind, Sometimes, Losing Yourself

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

  Germaine Greer

  Agony, Creating, Female

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

  Bruce Barton

  God, Character, Expression

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• I think I'm more European in personality.

  Sally Kirkland

  Thinking, Europe

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• It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Happiness, Home, Men

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Catholic, Doubt, Survival

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• We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Humor, Expectations, Style

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• As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

  Mose Allison

  Swings, Essentials, Jazz Improvisation

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