"I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself."
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"I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect of the human personality because when I talk about what literature nourishes, it would be silly of me or reductionist to say that it nourishes the brain."
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"A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is ourselves. '"
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"Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality."
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"Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company."
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"I hadn't the personality to be a long-term Success."
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"One thing you can't pretend to be is funny."
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"Hitting the kid with the ball might get you the ball, but it won't get you anyone to throw it to."
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"Don't say "The last one there is a rotten egg": unless you're absolutely sure there's a slow kid behind you."
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"To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead."
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"I think my role as a musician is much more reactionary than that of the creative personality type who locks himself in a tower and then comes out with Pet Sounds or something. I just respond to stimuli more than anything."
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"When I was young I was very shy and that was my personality. I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety."
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"Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something."
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"Because crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like to talk about the good sides of ourselves. We don't like to talk about our hatreds, our distrusts of one another, our secrets, but crime stories drag those things to the surface and consequently they fascinate people and always have throughout all history."
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"I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl."
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"Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality."
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"Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter."
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"My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages."
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"Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality."
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"A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't form ordinary relationships."
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