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“I think I'm a very kindhearted person, I don't like to hurt people's feelings. If I do, it's not intentionally and I feel a lot of people nowadays have lost that.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Persons Feelings Lost Hurt

Author:Selena

“Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it. If you're a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism, is going to be violent.”

Ifs World Persons Religion Peace Christianity Violence Depends Islam Violent Hinduism Scholar Judaism Promoting Mean People Islamophobia

Author:Reza Aslan

“Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading is not a passive act. Books are not TV. Art of all kinds is an interactive challenge. The person who makes the work and the person who comes to the work both have a job to do. I am never wilfully obscure, but I do ask for some effort.”

Way Want Should Kind Persons Art Book Sometimes Jobs Reading Asks Literature Easy Can Do Challenges Simple Effort Tvs Direct What You Want All Kinds Passive Obscure Interactive

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I'm definitely not gonna make a joke about separating the whites and colours, so don't try to make me. So instead, I'll just say something like “BOOGABOOGABOOGADOBLUH I'M A PERSON BLUHBLUHBLGUHGHGGHGH”. That appeals to everybody.”

Trying Persons Jokes Appeals Colour Separating

Author:Toby Turner

“I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.”

Knows Years Persons Ideas Country Whole Happens Winning Minutes Ten Our Country No Idea Iowa Hampshire New Hampshire Caucus Whole Picture

Author:Jackie Mason

“I'm so not a financial person.”

Persons Financial

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.”

Persons Feelings Right Now Gold Necks Medal Gold Medals Indescribable

Author:Jordyn Wieber

“When the mind becomes so completely absorbed in perfect health that all sickness is forgotten, all the powers of mind will proceed to create health, and every trace of sickness will soon disappear. When the mind becomes so completely absorbed in higher attainments and in greater achievements that all thought of failure is forgotten, all the forces of mind will begin to work for the promotion of those attainments and achievements. The person will be gaining ground every day, and greater success will positively follow.”

Mind Persons Force Perfect Greater Higher Achievement Forgotten Disappear Sickness Promotion Positively Attainment Power Of The Mind

Author:Christian D. Larson

“The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.”

Littles Persons Different Jobs Courses Lifetime Average Eight Average Person Different Jobs

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'”

Persons Book Imagination Quality Please Bed Tables Coffee Tidy Pleading Unread Books

Author:Linda Grant

“The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.”

Persons Turns Process Talking Vote Democratic Supposed To Be Democratic Process

Author:James Hansen

“If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice.”

Ifs Should Persons Has Beens Form Justice Serving Affected

Author:Leymah Gbowee

“I was piggy. But I'm not that person anymore.”

Persons Piggy

Author:Dennis Kozlowski

“Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency”

Knows Persons Book Shows Culture Common Known Knowledge Reader Assuming Newspapers Assumption Remarkable Consistency Identical

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost a lot of its promise.”

Ifs Persons Lost Morning Promise Coffee Get Up Desks Morning Person

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.”

Men Kind Persons States Use Able Given Felt Animal Magic Perfection Justify Capability Intervention Given Up

Author:Wolfgang Hildesheimer

“I'm not the type of person who enjoys the limelight.”

Persons Enjoy Type Limelight

Author:Katie Leung

“In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.”

Giving Persons Months Tough Bread Chickens Quarters Cuba

Author:William Levy

“Whether I'm single or in a relationship, I'm the same person. The same human being.”

Humans Persons Human Beings

Author:William Levy

“If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.”

Ifs Kind Persons Might Guy Next Party Praying Folks Dinner Beer Mccain Dinner Party

Author:Ellen Malcolm

“A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough.”

Wells Persons Enough Shows Reality Negative Harps Reality Shows

Author:Bruce Nash

“It is a different breed of person who wants to be on a reality-TV show.”

Want Persons Different Shows Reality Tvs Tv Shows Reality Tv

Author:Bruce Nash

“Everyday I strive to, at least, recognise my short-comings and the things I have to do to be the best person that I can possibly be.”

Persons I Can Strive Everyday Being The Best Recognise Best Person

Author:Alexander O'Neal

“I've gotten a lot more comfortable with the audition process, but there's something that really turned me off initially when I was younger, to auditioning. The idea that I couldn't get to the person that was actually making the film really frustrated me.”

Persons Ideas Film Process Comfortable Frustrated Auditions

Author:Amy Seimetz

“I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Happens Black White Rights Civil Rights Hispanic Black Person Rudolph

Author:Lynn Samuels

“Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.”

Humans Persons Character One Thing Just One Fascinating

Author:Sada Thompson

“I'm a MySpace person.”

Persons

Author:Teyana

“I'll be out shopping, and all it takes is for one person to recognise me and it can get scary.”

Persons Scary Shopping Recognise

Author:Bonnie Wright

“When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.”

Feels Persons Hard Actors Protect Criticism Protect Yourself

Author:Jess Weixler

“I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.”

Persons News Eras Wrong Person

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and signals of the sort that cult studies people study; and it's partly, I suppose, because some of those signs and signals aren't worth bothering about. You have to be selective about these things.”

People Persons Moments Study Bother Waking Cult Signals Selective Soaking

Author:Peter York

“The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person ... To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether.”

Persons War Happens Speak Missing Objectives Meaning Of Life War Of 1812

Author:Ira Progoff

“The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.”

Mind Persons Actors Deals Acting Essence Mediums

Book:Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

Source: Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

“It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.”

“I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.”

Mind Wells Persons Said Happiness Compensation Obese

Author:Pierre Dukan

“Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.”

Persons Ideas France

Author:Pierre Dukan

“You never see a French person eating alone.”

Persons Eating Eating Alone

Author:Pierre Dukan

“I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.”

Ifs Knows Children Persons Used Night Left Rooms Dad Guitar My Dad Used To Be Legacy Hotel Realising Venues Hotel Rooms

Author:Martha Wainwright

“The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they're available all the time for everyone that wants them in person.”

Want Persons America Moving Situation Band England Available

Author:Bjorn Ulvaeus

“Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.”

Thinking Persons Dog Consistently My Dog

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“I'm not really a morning person.”

Persons Morning Morning Person

Author:Steve Burton

“As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn't. My son is forever gonna believe that I'm an honest person or I'm a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read.”

Ifs Knows Want Believe Persons Book Forever Honest Son Dad Telling The Truth Liars My Son Pastor Exaggerated Honest Person

Author:Todd Burpo

“My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.”

Persons Father House Rounds Handy Carpentry

Author:John Henry Carver

“To some degree. I think that I've always been very much of a chordal person. The chords are the foundation of everything. Some of Yes' stuff is very linear, albeit complex, but it's single-line melodic stuff. So I kind of had to wear a different cap working with Yes. It's not so much chord-based.”

Thinking Kind Persons Different Stuff Lines Degrees Foundation Complexes Chords Caps Linear Single Line

Author:Geoff Downes

“I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.”

World Persons Doe Couple Directors Theatre Who I Am Potters Theatre Directors

Author:Stephen Daldry

“I thought that when I won the Olympic trials I was going to be the happiest person in the whole world. And I was happy. But it wasn't like I thought it was going to be. I had already imagined it in my head so many times. It was real before it happened.”

World Persons Real Whole Happened Trials Whole World

Author:Marlen Esparza

“As a person of color, I was just really tired of the fact that I wasn't seeing my story in the culture.”

Persons Facts Stories Culture Seeing Color Tired

Author:Justin Simien

“When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.”

Firsts Persons Bigs Photography Cameras Moved Worried Flash Filmmaking Assistants

Author:Lauren Greenfield

“I am a very sensitive person, very impulsive and emotional.”

Persons Emotional Sensitive Impulsive Sensitive Person

Author:Beth Gibbons

“The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.”

Giving Persons Ideas Focus Strange Pedestal

Author:Marketa Irglova

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