Quotes with single-person

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  • Robert A. Heinlein I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • A. N. Wilson I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Agnes Smedley I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Bruce Coville I feel like a very lucky person. From the time I was young, I had a dream of becoming a writer. Now that dream has come true, and I am able to make my living doing something I really love.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Walter Chrysler I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
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  • Tom Lehrer I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
    Tom Lehrer
    American musician, satirist, and mathematician (1928 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general were very educated politically. I could go sit in a bus and get into a conversation with someone and that person had a wealth of knowledge. And energy!
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Ann Druyan I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Bill Bryson I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car.
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Lisa Alther I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
    Lisa Alther
    American author and novelist (1944 - )
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  • William Shakespeare I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • John F. Kennedy I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, ''Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.''
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Josh Billings I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Donald Trump I have never met a successful person that was a quitter. Successful people never, ever, give up!
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Edmund Burke I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • E. M. Forster I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Babe Paley I have seldom known a person, who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.
    Babe Paley
    American socialite and style icon (1915 - 1978)
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  • Butch Trucks I have the distinction of being the only member of the Allman Brothers who has never missed a single show. I have played every single show the Allman Brothers have ever played.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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