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Personality Quotes
"A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage."
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"I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist."
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"He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor."
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"I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist."
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"Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality."
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"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."
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"I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality."
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"The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality."
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"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."
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"When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young."
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"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."
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"A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal."
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"We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do."
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"I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities."
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"There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price."
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"I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality."
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"And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need."
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"Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero."
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"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."
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"Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish."
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"I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block."
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"When he spoke, his words came with a confusion which was delightful to hear because one felt that it indicated not so much a defect in his speech as a quality of his soul, as it were a survival from the age of innocence which he had never wholly outgrown."
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"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."
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"It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player."
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"Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes."
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"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."
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"Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it."
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"Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality."
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"These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate."
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"I am a private person and that has always been my personality."
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"When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick."
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"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."
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"I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property."
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"To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her."
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"I swear I've good morals. It's just that bad ones befriend me. I'm a friendly person, you know. But I will talk to them. Believe you me."
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"Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality."
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"How can a man's candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind-impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian."
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"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."
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"Like the zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.''No, stupid,' Leo said, 'I'm a Leo. You're a Percy."
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"As we go through life, we essentially grow a personality. Our personality branches out in many directions to assist us organize our thoughts, feelings, values, ideas, and coping mechanisms. Our exhibited behavior " the way we organize and deal with life " becomes an external representation of our central self."
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"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."
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"Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs."
"He sniggered.He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now."
"Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects."
"I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you."
"And what little she allowed herself to say was said in a strained tone, in which her ingrained timidity paralysed her tendency to freedom and audacity of speech."
"You're playing the creepy vibe a little hard, I said. "Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music."
"Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing."
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