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Personality Quotes


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


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


"I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest."



"The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films."


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



"A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal."


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


"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."


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


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



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


"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."



"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."


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


"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."


"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."


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


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


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


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


"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."


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


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


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


"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."


"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!"



"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."


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


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


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


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


"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."


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


"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."


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



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


"The fact that he got to save the Gwardian's mate and managed to piss him off at the same time, well that was just a bonus and pure luck of circumstance. After all, he had gypsy blood inside of him and could not stop the satisfaction he got from pissing people off."


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


"May as well have ox blood running through those veins, I added, 'You're as stubborn as one."


"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."


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


"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck."


"I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?"


"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."


"Ronan did not smoke, he preferred his habits with hangovers."


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



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


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