#personal

I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#attack #criminals #family #get #i

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#above #common #educations #every #every man

I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level. ↗

— Debbie Gibson

#because #celebrities #draw #get #i

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#any #heard #i #never #personally

Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far. ↗

— Joe Morton

#far #good #good looks #looks #most

I am an addictive personality. ↗

— Trisha Goddard

#am #i #i am #personality

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy. ↗

— August Strindberg

#because #demands #energy #every #evolution

Personality is everything in art and poetry. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#everything #personality #poetry

And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#anybody #bit #changes #feel #had

Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#islamism #jihadism #osama-bin-laden #personal-questions #terrorism