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TOM PRICE One person's religion is another person's cult.
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN One person's crazyness is another person's reality.
TIM BURTON Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.
PAUL KRUGMAN There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.
CONOR OBERST A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is o...
MELODY BEATTIE A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.
ISABEL ALLENDE If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's conside...
VINCE VAUGHN I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES Every person has a different view of another person's image. That's all perception. The char...
STEVE ALFORD No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
ANN LANDERS Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it...
ALANA STEWART One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a diffe...
BOB RILEY The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.
MATTIE STEPANEK There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are...
DANIEL BALDWIN An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when ...
DOUGRAY SCOTT It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people...
LUPITA NYONG'O It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.
BILL HYBELS I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very w...
CARL BERNSTEIN I'm seeing a guy now who has nothing to do with films. It's so much nicer with somebody who ...
KERRY CONDON There's not one person in this crowd who's gonna agree with everything I say. Not one.
HOWARD DEAN I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can cho...
DEAN SMITH People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, ...
PAUL AUSTER I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
IAN WILLIAMS Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing f...
GARRISON KEILLOR Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.
CHARLES SCRIBNER, JR. It's difficult to say what attracts one person to another. It's always a combination, isn...
FELICITY KENDAL That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute the...
LARA FLYNN BOYLE A person's a person, no matter how small.
DR. SEUSS One man's transparency is another's humiliation.
GERRY ADAMS If whatever we do changes one person's opinion, gets one person's readiness better than it w...
BILL GOLDBERG Television is a young person's medium.
BERNARD CORNWELL You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another ch...
PARIS JACKSON I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just ...
PAUL AUSTER It's getting the right person that's the challenge.
BOB SCHIEFFER When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.
SAMANTHA FOX The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
DALE CARNEGIE It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into o...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
OGDEN NASH One man's constant is another man's variable.
ALAN PERLIS One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever ...
LEON REDBONE There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to y...
IRA GLASS God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior....
CHARLES STANLEY Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objectiv...
STERLING K. BROWN I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX There's more than one person on the planet. When you're madly in love, that's not what y...
HELEN FISHER There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.
HAZEL SCOTT Every successful person needs to have at least one person in their life who's not afraid of them...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.
DAVID FROST I've never been a Burger King person. I'm a total McDonald's person.
ANDERSON COOPER A wedding, people decide to get married, it comes out of such love for one another and then women ca...
ALISON BRIE While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's featu...
PARK SHIN-HYE One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.
JOSH RADNOR One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.
GEORGE ADE One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There's no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.
JOYCE MEYER Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put f...
DAN WEBSTER I'm a big cat person. It's one of those things that's like, everybody that knows me thin...
CHELSEA LEYLAND A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
GREGORY BENFORD A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
JOAN O'BRIEN If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of...
HENRY FORD Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.
HATTIE MCDANIEL I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element...
BAT FOR LASHES The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person...
JOE ROGAN If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid...
DAVID STRATHAIRN It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another perso...
DAVE BARRY Ive never known a person to live to one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
JOSH BILLINGS One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
HAROLD WILSON One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.
STUART BOWEN To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability....
SUSAN SONTAG One person's rights do not have to come at the expense of another's. If we can find common g...
GARY HERBERT Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoug...
CAROL WINDLEY They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the...
DARYL GATES The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the exi...
PENN JILLETTE I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange chi...
CLINT EASTWOOD Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at pers...
TAMMY BALDWIN There are really smart baseball players. It's a thinking person's game.
RICHARD LINKLATER One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null wor...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN When you're with another actor who's also been through five hours of prosthetic makeup, and ...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a vi...
EDGAR RAMIREZ Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
CARLOS GHOSN The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.
UNKNOWN Anytime you're saying that a person will be thinking one way or another or biased one way or ano...
MATT MEAD You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a ...
AL JOURGENSEN A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.
SABRINA LLOYD When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has differe...
ANTHONY ATALA I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to ...
IGGY POP Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
ANDY WARHOL There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person.
JERRY DELLA FEMINA Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
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From men of quality and letters;
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JONATHAN SWIFT Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
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JONATHAN SWIFT The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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JONATHAN MILLER For the rest,
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JONATHAN SWIFT We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
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JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
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Yet now and then your men...
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A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte...
JONATHAN RABAN But when a Man
JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r...
JONATHAN EDWARDS Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstr...
JONATHAN MILLER Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS