Quotes with first-person

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  • Kurt Vonnegut Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Campbell Brown Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Aristotle Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Barry Sanders Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Malcolm X Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Byron Howard Ariel got me into animation. She was the first Disney heroine that really felt alive. She felt like a real young woman.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Francois René de Chateaubriand Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
    Francois René de Chateaubriand
    French poet, writer and politician (1768 - 1848)
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  • Carlo Rubbia Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Eric Gill Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
    Eric Gill
    English sculptor and typeface designer (1882 - 1940)
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  • Aberjhani Art, rightly applied, provided humanity with the symbols, insight, and vicarious experience necessary to help one person place him- or herself in the shoes of another, and by so doing come to appreciate the commonality of human experience.
    The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003)
    Aberjhani
    American historian, columnist and novelist (1957 - )
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  • Michel de Certeau As a first approximation, I define ''belief'' not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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  • Arthur Henderson As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Caity Lotz As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
    Caity Lotz
    American actress, dancer and singer (1986 - )
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  • George Carlin As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • Bono As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Terence As a person is so must you humor them.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Bruce Barton As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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