Person
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
A good teacher is a determined person.
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day.
I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
I wash my own dishes; I do my own laundry. I'm not a glamorous person at all, not at all.
I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like — when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.
There's a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security with one person. If you go with excitement, you create chaos; you hurt people. There's jealousy, and it gets very messy. If you have security, it can be boring, and you die inside because of all the opportunities missed.
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
It's easy to see why dog rescue is a mushrooming culture. Turning a troubled person's life around is difficult, but rescuers with commitment and time and a few dollars can radically alter the fate of a dog. And there are millions of dogs — nearly 10 million in the shelter system, many others mistreated in private homes — in need of rescuing.
People have to render judgment. In my case, I've said upfront openly, I've made mistakes at times. I've had to go to God for forgiveness. I've had to seek reconciliation. But I'm also a 68-year-old grandfather, and I think people have to measure who I am now and whether I'm a person they can trust.
A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.
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