Quotes with first-person

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  • Benedict Cumberbatch We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Ursula K. LeGuin What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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  • Confucius What the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Lord Chesterfield When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Voltaire When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Caroll Spinney When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Katherine Mansfield When you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Bill Watterson Who was the first guy that look at a cow and said, I think that I'll drink whatever comes out of those things when I squeeze them?
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Henry Fielding Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Thomas Mann You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Horace Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Judy Garland Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
    Judy Garland
    American singer and actress (1922 - 1969)
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  • Carlton Cuse 'Brisco' was the first show I created, and of course, at the time I had no idea what a special experience it was because I didn't have a frame of reference. After it was over I was like, 'Damn. Shoot. That was something special.' I'm still upset that it got cancelled.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Bel Powley 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent. It's based on a graphic novel, which was written in 2002 by someone called Phoebe Gloeckner. It was turned into a play by Marielle Heller, who then wrote it as a screenplay for Sundance Labs.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Brenda Lee 'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.
    Brenda Lee
    American singer (1944 - )
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  • Blake Anderson 'South Park' is so hilarious... I remember when it first came out: that show changed television forever.
    Blake Anderson
    American actor, comedian and producer (1984 - )
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  • Brad Feld 'Sunspring,' the first known screenplay written by an AI, was produced recently. It is awesome. Awesomely awful. But it's worth watching all ten minutes of it to get a taste of the gap between a great screenplay and something an AI can currently produce.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bruce Dickinson (On performing in Costa Rica for the first time) It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album. What?!?
    Iron Maiden: Flight 666
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison A 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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