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Personality Quotes


"Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish."


"There are differing opinions as to whether charisma and charm are innate qualities which we are born with or learned personality styles. I believe it is a combination of both. Young children demonstrate a propensity for this enthusiasm. However, smart adults realize that they can get further in life when they develop these special traits."


"I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere."


"She was not a girl of ice and glass at all, but a girl of sunshine and stardust."


"Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes."


"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."


"We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie."


"Class Act.She's a first class act, graced with refinement and tact. But hold on! She has a beastly witty mind, a feral appetite for adventure, and a savage need for primal love! She's beautifully twisted, so before you take the plunge be sure you can swim deep."


"It's often been said, she's easy on the eye but the moment she shows you a slice of her personality, you'll feel for the first time, something of magic is walking on this earth."


"In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program."


"You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over."


"As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal."


"Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it."


"I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me."


"She's all brute force and '90s clichés."


"It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player."


"Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me."


"If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical."


"For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive."


"Scratch a cynic and you will find a disappointed romantic."


"Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans."


"As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must honestly admit it, you're a bore."


"When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young."


"There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done."


"I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property."


"We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do."


"When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick."


"On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in."


"I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality."


"My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration."


"All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse."


"One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge."


"Excitement is a crossroad which runs in all directions. No man lacks personality, he just never connected with you at the intersection."


"For I never care to do a thing in a quiet way, it's got to be theatrical or I don't take any interest in it."


"I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswise across his character and disposition and general outlook."


"We might respect a serious person with an austere and rigid personality, but we adore merry, kindhearted, and artistic people."


"Like the zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.''No, stupid,' Leo said, 'I'm a Leo. You're a Percy."


"Since we are all unique and individual, being cognizant of different personality styles will help you better recognize where others are coming from to minimize barriers, build trust, and catapult your newfound communication skills into meaningful connections. The savvy socializer knows this all."


"Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I wonder which one YOU are. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!"


"Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded."


"You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink!"



"He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration."


"I'm persnickety," I confessed. "Not, incidentally, to the point of being snarly. But still. Delightful and persnickety are not a common blend." "Do you want to know why I never married?" "The question wasn't at the top of my list," I admitted. The old woman made me meet her eye. "Listen to me; I never married because I was easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It is much better to be too easily interested."


"Humanism is not a single character. It is a magnificent blend of various emotional and behavioral traits that are unique to the human mind."


"This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl even, these alternations of mood; good days, bad days, for no reason whatever, happiness from a pretty face, downright misery at the sight of a frump."


"Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled."
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