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“I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.”

Persons Actors Careers Gains I Realized Internals

Author:Sonja Sohn

“If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!”

Ifs Persons Parks Amusement Adventurous Amusement Parks

Author:Tammin Sursok

“I like to be a very fair person.”

Persons Fairs

Author:Alan Sugar

“I'm a commercial person, not an academic.”

Persons Academic

Author:Alan Sugar

“It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't.”

Persons Benefits Deserve Brave Brave Person

Author:Alan Sugar

“You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.”

Ifs Persons Real Levels Deeper Real Person

Author:Alexander Skarsgard

“I'm not a first-place person.”

Firsts Persons

Author:Amy Sedaris

“I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.”

Persons Wanted Fashion Designer Fashion Designer Business Person

Author:Anna Sui

“The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.”

Persons Spirit Responsibility Direct Performances Composer Conductor Interpreting

Book:On Conducting

Source: On Conducting

“In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.”

Want Firsts Persons Doe Political Views Rights Campaigns Corporations Amendments First Amendment Disclosure Political Campaign First Amendment Rights

Author:Bernie Sanders

“My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!”

Persons Doe Earth Certain Wonderful Directors Mark Green Musical Including Arrangements Cherries Chores Green Earth Wonderful Person

Author:Brett Somers

“We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.”

Persons Hard Opportunity Nations Responsibility Hard Work Promise Succeed Remains Personal Responsibility Unbroken Great Nations

Author:Brian Sandoval

“I'm still the same person I've always been.”

Persons Stills Acid Rain

Author:Britney Spears

“I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.”

People Persons Faces Class Supposed To Be Champion Working Class Jewelry

Author:Bubba Sparxxx

“Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Wells Persons Life Is Imagine Sincere Compassionate Sincerely Life Is Like Satirical

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.”

People Want Trying Persons Real Helping Use Hands Poverty Racism Accounts Angry Aids Shoulders Real Person

Author:Jamie Foxx

“As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.”

Persons Black Folks Sensitive Black Person

Author:Jamie Foxx

“The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.”

People Knows Way Persons Perception

Author:David Selby

“There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader ... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.”

Writing Persons I Can Whole Dies Reader Notion Average Sat Detectives Notebook Homicide

Author:David Simon

“I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that's in my heart.”

Want Wells Heart Persons Crazy Internet My Heart Investing Brazil Crazy Person

Author:Eduardo Saverin

“Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another.”

Persons I Can Book Wish Can Do Areas Organized

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.”

Ifs Persons Might Vision Creative Particular Artistic Combination Sincerely Contradictory Stance Creative Life Cumulative Artistic Vision

Author:George Saunders

“If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.”

Ifs Persons Has Beens Helping Able Asks Position

Author:Gil Scott-Heron

“What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years?”

Years Mind Persons Two Government Information Guilty Etc Two Years Target Permit Deportation

Author:Greta Van Susteren

“I love to travel. I'm a curious person.”

Persons Curious

Author:Hilary Swank

“I'm not a negative person.”

Persons Negative

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.”

People Persons Chasing Pedestal

Author:Ichiro Suzuki

“In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter.”

Thinking Feels Years Persons Doe Wanted Jobs Lasts Father Interesting Losing Divorce Chapters Rebirth Going Through Divorce

Author:John Stamos

“I'm not the guy who bursts into the room. I'm the most insecure person you'll meet if you get to know me.”

Ifs Knows Persons Guy Rooms Know Me Insecure Get To Know Me Insecure Person

Author:John Stamos

“I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.”

Persons Has Beens Conviction Leftists

Author:Jose Saramago

“I often don't feel like the person I look like.”

Feels Looks Persons

Author:Juliet Stevenson

“When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.”

Want Persons Actors Natural Chance Fronts Direct Cameras Actresses Progression

Author:Jamie Foxx

“I'm a pretty emotional person.”

Persons Emotional Emotional Person

Author:Katey Sagal

“If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.”

Ifs Believe Persons Problem Christian Purpose Plans Evolution Textbooks Changes Over Time

Author:Lee Strobel

“So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.”

People World Looks Persons Self Enough Action Suffering Results Wonder Example Produce Feds Inaction Famine Calories Irresponsibility Self Centeredness Centeredness

Author:Lee Strobel

“Fear can be used to get into your attention. Any way a person can get you to think of them, allows them to drain you.”

Thinking Way Persons Used Attention Drains

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are a stranger in a strange land. As an evolved person living in a relatively unevolved world, you are constantly subjected to a bombardment of seemingly endless negative vibrations emanating from those around you.”

World Persons Land Strange Negative Stranger Endless Vibrations Stranger In A Strange Land

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite, people can scan you and drain you.”

People Persons Culture Taught Opposites Mysticism Good Person Drains

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can talk to one person for five minutes and be sick afterwards. You can be totally physically drained because their aura is so low. You can talk to someone else for an hour and just feel fine.”

Feels Persons Hours Five Minutes Fine Lows Sick Five Minutes Auras Drained

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As a person progresses along the path of power, they attract certain forces and beings from other dimensions, who feel the power that you are storing. Sometimes they want some of it; sometimes they want to ruin you. We call these beings entities.”

Want Feels Persons Sometimes Certain Force Path Progress Ruins Dimensions Entity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God. . . in this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.”

Humans Persons Real Suffering Felt Christ Imagination Human Beings Christianity Possibility Down And Possession Contact Midst My Imagination Christian Love Foreseen

Book:The Simone Weil Reader

Source: The Simone Weil Reader

“One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.”

“But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.”

Looks Persons Color Despair Spring Depth Winter Neglected Color And Life

Book:A Matter of Class

Source: A Matter of Class

“The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is important.”

Feels Writing Persons Important Character Stories Care Lying Individual Ability Core

Book:Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

Source: Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

“Higher meditation is not taught through techniques or words. The real meditation experience is taught inwardly. You shift a person through different dimensional planes.”

Persons Different Real Wisdom Meditation Taught Buddhism Higher Technique Planes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.”

Persons Wisdom Buddhism Battle Knowledge And Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A person with power has control of their emotions. A person with power can stop fear, stop depression, or they can augment a positive emotion.”

Persons Emotion Buddhism Balance Positive Emotions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A balanced person will get depressed, discouraged, frustrated and angry sometimes, but doesn't direct it towards anybody else. If they do, they quickly realize they made a mistake.”

Ifs Persons Made Sometimes Realizing Mistake Buddhism Balance Direct Angry Balanced Frustrated Discouraged Made A Mistake

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you can be agreeable to each and every person or situation with which you come into contact - no matter how "difficult" it is or how much you think you are in the "right" - then you are demonstrating control.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Matter Difficult Situation Buddhism Balance Contact Demonstrating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't become a spiritual bigot. Don't feel that just because you meditate and you are striving for enlightenment that you are in any way superior to any other person. Be even. Be easy. You will last longer on the pathway to self-discovery.”

Way Feels Persons Self Lasts Spiritual Easy Buddhism Balance Enlightenment Discovery Strive Self Discovery Superiors Pathways Bigots

Author:Frederick Lenz

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