Quotes with first-person

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  • Robert H. Schuller If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Brendan Fraser If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Richard A. Nelson If you take away ideology, you are left with a case by case ethics which in practice ends up as me first, me only, and in rampant greed.
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  • Lucille Ball If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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  • Bill Nunn If you want to be an actor, you should just get out there and do it. I don't go for the approach of first getting photos and an agent. I think you should start with the work, and the other stuff will follow. As with 'opportunity knocks,' you have to be ready.
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  • Wendell Phillips If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Ralph Bunche If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Carl Sagan If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Hader If you watch 'SNL,' any time there's this thing with everyone singing, I'm, like, the one person who just has a straight line of dialogue because I can't sing to save my life.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Horace If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Brian Tracy If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Horace If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Lao-Tzu If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Caroline B. Cooney If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
    Caroline B. Cooney
    American author
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  • James Baldwin If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Marilyn vos Savant If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.
    Marilyn vos Savant
    American magazine columnist, author and lecturer (1946 - )
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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