Personality Quotes - Page 32

• It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.

  Mae Whitman

  Book, Stories, World

  "'Parenthood’s' Mae Whitman: 'All I do is talk about Tim Riggins and the Panthers'". Interview with Willa Paskin, www.salon.com. November 18, 2012.

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• I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, 'Yeah, we're the Kinks.' Celebrate your difference; don't be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.

  Michael Weatherly

  Kids, Differences, Different

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• I love showing my personality in my cooking.

  Roy Yamaguchi

  Cooking

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• Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities.

  Tom Brokaw

  Government, Differences, Chinese

  "New Again: Tom Brokaw". Interview with Gale Lopez, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2015.

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• There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Stars, Ignorance

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• You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the personality from this lifetime.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Self

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• The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Surface

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• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress.

  Harold Geneen

  Attitude, Sarcasm, Vanity

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• The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

  Oliver Lodge

  Facts, Able, Fit

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• Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

  William Landay

  Writing, Imagine, Speed

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• The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.

  Brian Molko

  Mirrors, Sides, Extremes

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• I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.

  Roberta Williams

  Character, Player, Games

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• I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.

  John Hodgman

  Character, Play, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hyun Joong hyung is totally a real man. He is very generous, easy to get along, and dependable. Sometimes, he would hide and cry secretly at night. He won’t tell others when he is sad about something. He’ll bear the sadness himself. He has a strong personality (he will not fall).

  Kim Kyu-jong

  Strong, Real, Fall

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• You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.

  Cameron Monaghan

  Gay, Men, Looks

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

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• I don’t have a problem with recognition ... It’s very, very rarely about who I am, it’s always, ‘I love your work.’ ... It’s always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, ‘Oh, you’re a famous personality’.

  C. C. H. Pounder

  Love You, Thinking, Who I Am

  "CCH Pounder On Going From TV Victim To Law-Enforcer With ‘The Shield’ & More For ‘Isn’t That ...?’". Interview with Chris Harnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2013.

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• What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?

  Matthew Crawford

  Bullshit, Firsts, Twenties

  Matthew Crawford (2010). “The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good”, p.12, Penguin UK

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• Words are living things. They have personality, point of view... agenda.

  Hannibal

  Views, Agendas, Point Of View

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• We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

  Indira Gandhi

  Men, Inspire, Privilege

  Indira Gandhi (1975). “Indira Gandhi speaks on democracy, socialism, and Third World nonalignment”, Taplinger Publishing Company

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• Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Giving, Soul, Mind

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.9, Profile Books

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• I think Taylor Swift is a really good artist. I feel like her personality shines through everything she does, her music, her fashion, her style. She won Album of the Year, and she’s a really good writer. I’m a song writer so I respect artists who write their own songs. She won Album of the Year when she was 18 or something like that so, I think she’s dope.

  Mike Posner

  Fashion, Song, Writing

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• I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.

  Megyn Kelly

  Sexy, Feminist, Way

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• The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

  Marilyn Manson

  Evil, Choices, Humanity

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• I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.

  Alison McGhee

  Writing, Play, Two Friends

  "Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee". Interview with Claire Kirch, www.publishersweekly.com. September 9, 2010.

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• That's what this democracy was for us, a huge supermarket of mass man where we could take a piece here and a piece there to make our personalities for ourselves instead of putting up with what was given at the beginning.

  Seymour Krim

  Opportunity, Men, Democracy

  Seymour Krim (1991). “What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim”, Paragon House Publishers

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