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James Arthur Singer-Songwriter
Personality

"I believe strongly in what John Keats called negative capability: the trait or practice that allows a poet to remain in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason. For Keats, William Shakespeare exemplified negative capability, and I do think it's extraordinary that for all the thousands of pages Shakespeare left behind, we really don't know much about Shakespeare's own personality or opinions."

Thinking Believe Personality
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Hedrick Smith Journalist
Personality

"Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues."

Issues Personality Television
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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Personality

"Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited."

Prayer God Personality
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
Personality

"It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it."

Men Enemy Personality
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
Personality

"As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It."

Soul Teaching Personality
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Graham King Film Producer
Personality

"I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak."

Thinking Littles Personality
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Personality

"With regard to nuclear weapons, it's kind of hard to say. [Donald Trump] is said lots of things. The national security experts are terrified. But they're more terrified by his personality than by his statements."

Personality Nuclear Experts
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Marisa Miller Model, Actress
Personality

"Eighty percent of the things I do are not natural for my personality. I believe you have to fake it till you make it. Act like you're confident and you'll get there."

Believe Personality Fake
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Henry Ford Industrialist
Personality

"I am in exact accord with the belief of Thomas Edison that spirit is immortal, that there is a continuing center of character in each personality. But I don't know what spirit is, nor matter either. I suspect they are forms of the same thing. I never could see anything in this reputed antagonism between spirit and matter. To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life."

Character Beautiful Personality
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Lewis Mumford Philosopher, Author
Personality

"I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!""

Men Personality Tombstone
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Lewis Mumford Philosopher, Author
Personality

"It was Stieglitz's endeavor... to translate the unseen world of tactile values as they develop between lovers not merely into the sexual act but the entire relation of two personalities - to translate this world of blind touch into sight."

Two Personality Sight
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Lily Cole Model, Actress
Personality

"I've always cared about issues, always thought through problems. I don't know how much that comes from my personality or my mum."

Issues Problem Personality
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Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
Personality

"I have never had an animal that didn't have a personality, one differing from another."

Animal Personality
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