Best Personal Things Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.”

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Author:Erik Larson

“I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.”

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Author:Steve Perry

“Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.”

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Author:Todd Phillips

“I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn't them versus Celtic - it was them against me! I just think they wanted to take me on.”

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Author:Gordon Strachan

“Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.”

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Author:Regina Spektor

“You can fall on your face easily if you go off in a certain direction. The Birds is a good example, some people are really phobic about birds flying over their heads, and some don't care. So, it's a personal thing.”

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Author:George A. Romero

“The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert.”

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Book:The Perseids and Other Stories

Source: The Perseids and Other Stories

“Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into DDT, killing beetles and worms, resulting in food contamination, much sickness, and trouble. Although he is regarded as hero by modern medicine, Pasteur will be treated in much the same way as a warmonger when he is judged in the spiritual world.”

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Author:Michio Kushi

“Sex is such a personal thing - why do we insist on sharing it with another person?”

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Author:Jane Wagner

“The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.”

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Author:Manny Pacquiao

“When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.”

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Book:Road Rage: (A Wexford Case)

Source: Road Rage: (A Wexford Case)

“Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.”

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Author:Brian May

“Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people wont.”

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Author:Stephen Mangan

“Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.”

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Author:Cathy Guisewite

“Style is a very personal thing and women should develop their own individual look.”

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Author:Cat Deeley

“It`s great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the most personal things about their lives for no reason - on airplanes, everywhere I go. People just blurt out secrets. I'm not sure why. I think that they see in my films that nothing will make me uptight. I'm not going to judge them.”

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Author:John Waters

“People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.”

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Author:Theodore Zeldin

“Comedy is a very personal thing, as you would know if you've ever told the same joke to two people and had one of them laugh their head off and the other one look at you as though you were a completely cretin.”

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Author:Andrew Denton

“If you feel comfortable, and you feel happy, and successful at your job, then that's success. You define that as success, then that's success. Success is not a general thing. It's a personal thing. It's a personal attribute.”

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Author:Lupe Fiasco

“Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.”

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Author:Stendhal

“When you write a character and their dialogue, you can't help imagining how you would be acting if you were them. You kind of have to relate to all of them. It's the most personal thing I've ever done.”

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Author:Tom Ford

“It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.”

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Author:D. H. Lawrence

“My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.”

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Author:David Hasselhoff

“Leaving wasn't a personal thing where I intentionally wanted to stick it to management or anyone. This is business. I felt I should have been rewarded for helping the Indians turn around a half century of losing. It was a shame they decided to treat me that way, after all I did for them. I helped this team go from one-hundred six losses to basically one-hundred six wins and into the World Series. And what do I get for it? Nothing.”

Source: Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle

“......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.”

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Book:Daybooks

Source: Daybooks

“When you present something that you have worked on to somebody else, for some reason that is the moment when you can see everything that you have done wrong. They may or may not agree, but it is more of a personal thing for me. It is that I am looking at it because you are self conscious and suddenly there is someone in the room that is seeing it for the first time.”

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Author:Michael Giacchino

“Music is a very personal thing, so if you hear one type of song that you don't like, you pass judgment on whole band's repertoire.”

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Author:Chris Metzler

“A lot of writers tired of doing kind of hip, slick, funny, dark, exploding hypocrisy, underlining once again the point that life is a farce and we're all in it for ourselves and that the point of life is to amass as much money/fame/sexual gratification, you know, whatever your personal thing is, and that everything else is just glitter or PR image - that we're tired of sort of doing that stuff over and over again.”

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Author:David Foster Wallace

“For me, writing is a solitary thing and a personal thing. And it's weird, because when you make something that requires money and collaborators, you have to talk about them. I don't enjoy that part of it. I still want to keep it to myself.”

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Author:Mike White

“I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing, and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.”

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Author:Charlize Theron

“To me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. The witch doctor tries to convince us that we have to ask God for help, to spell out to him what we need, even to bribe him with prayer or cash on the line.”

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Author:Frank Sinatra

“I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.”

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Author:Alan Ball

“There is really no spiritual message that I'm trying to convey with my music, it's just a personal thing. I really believe that the more personal we get, in a way, the more universal the implications.”

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Author:John McLaughlin

“Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be embarrassed.”

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Author:Julia Stone

“People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?”

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Author:Mary Hart

“My interest in fragrance is really a personal thing. I've always gravitated toward them and appreciate the subtle, meaningful way they express who you are.”

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Author:Erin Heatherton

“I don't want to go shoving what I believe down anyone's throat. Whatever I believe about Jesus is a personal thing, but it doesn't exclude all the others.”

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Author:Sinead O'Connor

“I'm extremely happy, but I don't do love songs for the most part. It feels weird; that's such a personal thing to me. I'd rather live that in my real life and play a different character outside of that.”

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Author:Carrie Underwood

“I didn't want to sign with A$AP Worldwide at the time because I was going through some personal things and I had to go back home to my mother in Miami. I also just wanted to feel independent as a man.”

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Author:SpaceGhostPurrp

“My Instagram has personal things, like pictures of my home, but generally it's my voice, and that's a public thing. Using my Instagram posts in my art is not about taking my personal Instagram and making it public; it's about understanding and challenging the notion of these free platforms that encourage self-promotion and understanding what they are technically and culturally.”

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Author:Frances Stark

“I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which is not a good personal thing. I don't stop and enjoy those moments. Always on to the next and never in the moment.”

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Author:Nicki Minaj

“Being happy is a very personal thing-and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.”

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Author:Esther Hicks

“Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It's sort of a contradiction, but that's how it works somehow.”

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Author:Bjork

“It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history.”

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Author:Klaus Nomi

“Color is a very personal thing. You need to make sure to choose a color that makes you happy. But I don't recommend accent walls - choose a color you can live with on all four walls.”

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Author:Nate Berkus

“My own son feels I'm uncool but my grandson loves me. Being cool or uncool is a generational thing. But as a personal thing, I really love everybody in sight.”

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Author:Jack Kirby

“The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.”

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Author:Orson Welles

“It's a little bit hard to have personal things subject to public scrutiny, and it's a pressure that other people aren't under, but then they're under a lot of pressures that we're not under.”

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Author:John Malkovich

“When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.”

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Author:Tom Cruise

“I still do one song by myself onstage. it gives people the extremely personal thing where it's just me on guitar. But, I think the songs are better as a band. I think with all of the extra little hooks and backing vocals, it just adds to what my initial idea was.”

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Author:Butterfly Boucher

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