Famous Quotes: Personal

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.
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That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.
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Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
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Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.
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I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.
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The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
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It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.
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Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.
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My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.
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What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.
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The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
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I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.
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I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.
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I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.
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The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
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I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.
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If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.
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