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"I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable."
"There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much."
"Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality."
"I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess."
"One can often trace the sources of a brand personality - here it is the advertising, there the pack, somewhere else some physical element of the product. Of course, the personality is clearest and strongest when all the elements are consistent."
"I have an unfortunate personality."
"After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity."
"Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star."
"I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly."
"The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth."
"Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality."
"When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality."
"If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking."
"People tell me I'm a comedian, but I don't approach acting from that perspective. I do know that everything in life has to do with your timing and perception. You have to be comfortable with the rhythm that you're in. You can't just jump into a fast rhythm if yours is slow. You might have to pick up the pace but in your own particular way. It has to do with personality, too."
"My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality."
"I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important."
"The manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile."
"So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate."
"I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest."