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Personality Quotes


"I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay."


"I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest."


"Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero."


"Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me."


"Personality and socialization aren't the same thing."


"I'm very staid compared to my students, actually."


"Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done."


"The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films."


"I have to choose songs that represent my personality."


"When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young."


"Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes."


"Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things."


"In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program."


"A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal."


"If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical."


"You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over."


"I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere."


"Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it."


"Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality."


"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is."


"These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate."


"I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me."


"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."


"We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do."


"Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play."


"What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine."


"I am a private person and that has always been my personality."


"When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick."


"On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in."


"All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse."


"I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality."


"I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities."


"There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price."


"There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done."


"I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven."


"I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property."


"For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive."


"I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality."


"Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative."


"Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy."


"And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need."


"To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her."


"We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie."


"As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal."
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