Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop. ~By Jurgen Klinsmann ~
You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals. ~By Chris Cooper ~
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. ~By Rick Moody ~
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed. ~By Mwai Kibaki ~
I have a few personal ambitions for the band. ~By John Deacon ~
I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous. ~By Calvin Klein ~
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success. ~By Bo Bennett ~
I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are. ~By Tito Jackson ~
I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character. ~By Dennis Farina ~
This was all the inspiration it took: We put 100 percent of ourselves in the lines. We personally take care of everything, from fulfillment to answering the mail. ~By Connie Sellecca ~
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school. ~By Mary Antin ~
Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed. ~By Philip Zimbardo ~
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. ~By Abraham Lincoln ~
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others. ~By John Perry Barlow ~
My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history. ~By Martin Kippenberger ~
Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse. ~By Julius Erving ~
I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model. ~By Shannen Doherty ~
Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play. ~By Tara Strong ~
There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things. ~By Laurel Clark ~
That's another thing about today's stars that makes me glad that I'm not doing it any more. The stars come with ten people all around them. I don't know how you ever make any personal contact with them. ~By Julie Harris ~
A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego. ~By Roseanne Barr ~
But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment. ~By Debbie Harry ~
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity. ~By Pope John Paul II ~
Being named a great school at a great price means that we offer both high-quality academic programs and real affordability for families. We offer a personal touch that's hard to match at a big school but without a big price tag. ~By David McFadden ~
My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession. ~By Joaquin Phoenix ~
But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing? ~By Gregory Bateson ~
If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate. ~By Martin Lawrence ~
I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside. ~By Victoria de los Angeles ~
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature. ~By Ann Druyan ~
And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money. ~By Michael Chertoff ~
Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating. ~By Brian Boitano ~
If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count. ~By Mariah Carey ~
What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent. ~By Frank Luntz ~
I have an unfortunate personality. ~By Orson Welles ~
I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone. ~By Elizabeth Banks ~
It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it. ~By Audre Lorde ~
Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses. ~By Arnold Newman ~
Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that. ~By Walter Matthau ~
It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive. ~By Lil' Kim ~
I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom. ~By Rose Wilder Lane ~
If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical. ~By Marg Helgenberger ~
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. ~By Albert Bandura ~
You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out. ~By Stanley Crouch ~
This question about Iraq has gotten personal. ~By Gerhard Schroder ~
People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy. ~By Constantine Karamanlis ~
I would like to state that my personal opinions are that the people of every country should decide by themselves what kind of government they want. ~By Julius Rosenberg ~
I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it. ~By James Laughlin ~
I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion. ~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it. ~By Ernest Hemingway ~
It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda. ~By John Hope Franklin ~
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island. ~By Derek Walcott ~
When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick. ~By Kathy Najimy ~
My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy. ~By Lee Greenwood ~
Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things. ~By Isabelle Huppert ~
Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one. ~By Marianne Williamson ~
And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons. ~By Tony Greig ~
I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it. ~By Jonathan Coe ~
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place. ~By Jimmy Breslin ~
I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan. ~By Jacques Delors ~
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. ~By Aldous Huxley ~
The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality. ~By Herbert Read ~
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. ~By Olympia Brown ~
Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal. ~By Nelson Eddy ~
It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating. ~By Luke Wilson ~
That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens. ~By Ville Valo ~
Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator. ~By Erykah Badu ~
Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success. ~By Mae West ~
You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things. ~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities. ~By Rachael Leigh Cook ~
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. ~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside. ~By Charlotte Gainsbourg ~
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. ~By Brian Tracy ~
I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds. ~By Marc Wallice ~
When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young. ~By Dennis Rodman ~
Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone. ~By John Turturro ~
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. ~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is. ~By Gloria Steinem ~
People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music. ~By Susannah McCorkle ~
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ~By Peter De Vries ~
The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it. ~By Herbert Simon ~
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking. ~By George Eliot ~
Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success. ~By Paul J. Meyer ~
The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior. ~By David Rose ~
It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically. ~By Serj Tankian ~
I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me. ~By Katherine Moennig ~
That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don't and I've always said that on these kinds of moral issues, people have the right to their own opinions. ~By Stephen Harper ~
In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended. ~By Arthur Keith ~
What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change. ~By Simon Travaglia ~
We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal. ~By Benny Green ~
It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder. ~By Bob Ney ~
I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest. ~By Al Gore ~
A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship. ~By Maximilian Schell ~
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world. ~By Albert Schweitzer ~
Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn. ~By James Cash Penney ~
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property. ~By Potter Stewart ~
There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters. ~By Sean Bean ~
I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable. ~By Leonard Nimoy ~
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. ~By George Grosz ~
The actor has a constant problem of personal identity. ~By Cyril Cusack ~
The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity. ~By Michael Burgess ~
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