Quotes with personally

  • Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
  • Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
  • I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
  • Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.
  • Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?
  • When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
  • Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
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  • Winston Churchill Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • George Orwell He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Lord Northcliffe A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
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  • John Irving A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
    The World According To Garp (2012)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Billy Ocean And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.
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  • Pat Riley Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Bennett Miller For me, personally, the value of a film is not determined by a review, but the health of the film is.
    Bennett Miller
    American film director (1966 - )
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  • Andrei Sakharov For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.
    Andrei Sakharov
    Russian nuclear physicist, dissident and activist (1921 - 1989)
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  • Ann Druyan For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Bill Hybels God doesn't want us to pile up impressive phrases. He doesn't want us to use words without thinking about their meaning. He wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Jonathan Franzen I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're solid and unchanging.
    De correcties (2010)
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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  • Lorrie Moore I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Margaret Mead I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
    Margret Mead: Some personal views (1979) p. 249
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Alva Myrdal I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Adam Jones I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.
    Adam Jones
    American musician (1965 - )
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  • Anthony Holden I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Antoine Fuqua I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Aleister Crowley I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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