#person

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not. ↗

— Thomas Perry

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No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person. ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#alone #being #own #person #sondheim

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives. ↗

— Mike Peters

#choice #dictating #how #live #lives

As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca. ↗

— Tom Peters

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Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. ↗

— Oscar Peterson

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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person. ↗

— Tom Petty

#find #go #happy #happy person #love

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe. ↗

— Phaedrus

#alliance #never #person #powerful #safe

I try to separate my personal life from swimming. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#life #personal #personal life #separate #swimming

I like to just think of myself as a normal person who just has a passion, has a goal and a dream and goes out and does it. And that's really how I've always lived my life. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#does #dream #goal #goes #how

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#fallacy #founded #grow #happier #happiest