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“In primary school, every day and especially on Fridays, I was supposed to say, 'I am Turkish, and I am righteous and hardworking,' But all those things did not actually turn us into Turks. This system is somehow creating fake personalities.”

School Turns Personality Creating Primaries Fake Righteous Friday Turkish Hardworking Primary School

Author:Osman Baydemir

“As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.”

Feels Matter Light Pain Turns President Wife Like You Personality Dad Bills Clinton Vices Branches Executives Als Annoying Nerd Gore Vice President Turn Off Executive Branch

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“The weird thing about metal fans is we're all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We're individualistic and opinionated and severe in our personalities - sometimes we really turn each other off. A little bit of a metal fan goes a long way.”

Way Littles Long Sometimes Turns Bits Fans Personality Little Bit Metals Severe Long Way Weird Things Opinionated Individualistic Metal Fans

Author:Corey Taylor

“Each film does bring a new set of personalities and it can turn out great or it can turn out not great.”

Doe Film Turns Personality

Author:Christophe Beck

“Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.”

People Ifs Men Trying Stills Might Turns Bits Path Personality Letting Go Argument Direct Balls Gestures Alleys Bowling Bowling Alleys

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“Ambition is something you turn into a plan to create an online personality, a brand, a network.”

Turns Plans Personality Ambition Brands Online

Author:Cris Mazza

“I think they [Martin Scorsese, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra] liked my honesty. My personality. For that, they always treated me great. I, in turn, treated them great. No secret about it. My being who I am - that is that.”

Thinking Turns Secret Honesty Personality Who I Am Treated Frank Scorsese

Author:Don Rickles

“Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.”

Running Desire Turns Natural Personality Election Campaigns Presidential Turn-on Presidential Election

Author:Barack Obama

“It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.”

Knows Wells Certain Turns Personality Smart Arrogance Charm Unbearable Narcissistic Smugness

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.”

People Giving Firsts Made Different Real Religion Turns Christ My Own Personality Giving Up New Beginnings Different Peoples

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories bind. . . . They are basic to who we are. A story composite personality which grows out of its community. It maintains a stability within that community, providing common knowledge as to how things are, how things should be -- knowledge based on experience. These stories become the conscience of the group. They belong to everyone.”

Should Real Stories Turns Individual Grows Community Common Groups Honest Personality Conscience Storytelling Who We Are Stability Trusted Providing Composites Common Knowledge

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships.”

Life Is Turns Understanding Personality Balance Shapes Determined Memorable Tension Accurate Overview

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues