Quotes with character-driven

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  • Arthur Miller He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • John B. Gough His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
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  • Lord John Whorfin History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.
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  • Henry David Thoreau How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ernest Hemingway How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Anne Frank How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Barbra Streisand I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Adam Brody I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
    Adam Brody
    American actor, writer, musician, and producer (1979 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Sir Richard Steele I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Nathanael Emmons I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
    Nathanael Emmons
    American Congregational minister and theologian (1745 - 1840)
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  • Anne Tyler I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Martin Luther King I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation when they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Martin Luther King I have a dream, that one day my four little children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by their character.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Sam Walton I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
    Sam Walton
    American businessman, founder Wal-Mart Stores (1918 - 1992)
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  • James Boswell I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
    James Boswell
    Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • George Washington I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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