You often see politicians who try to put on a different persona; they think they should be more jolly or serious. Invariably, the persona they choose is worse than their own.
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Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conve... JOHN HALLOCK People see the 'Lil' Wayne' persona and think they know who he really is. My son's f... LAUREN LONDON They will be a different team, and they should put on an better performance than the last match. AKIRA NISHINO Everyone should be able to live their lives free to choose their own belief system, who they wish to... ALANNAH MYLES It was a very different type of persona than Dad is normally known for, MICHAEL DOUGLAS There's the public persona of Ron, ... but there's a lot more there than what you see. He's a Renais... PAUL WARNER What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the ... BILLY CORGAN Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons... BRUCE DAVISON Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci... MARY KARR Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacri... CRISS JAMI Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfe... BEN QUAYLE Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in ... MARGARET YOUNG I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they th... MAURA TIERNEY We think that birth parents should always have the option to choose whether their information should... ROGER VANN Since narcissists deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in... M SCOTT PECK Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are ... M. SCOTT PECK The audience was not the issue, ... because they did not want to be associated with (Martha Stewart,... MARTIN WALKER Human beings are complex information consumers: they have active needs, passions, and preferences. T... LAURA BUSCHE Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met. IMAN With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than t... BOB NEWHART Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have
more things, or more money, in ... MARGARET YOUNG Often people attempt to live their lives backwards, they try to have more things or more money in or... MARGARET YOUNG Politicians are like diapers, they should be changed often and for the same reason. MARK TWAIN For the vast majority of those who are obese - those with a Body Mass Index over 30 - their size is ... JOHN RIDLEY Sometimes journalists try to create a persona that's not really there. JENNIFER LOPEZ When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in wh... DAN O'BRIEN Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, ... HANK AZARIA Politicians will tell you that their spouses get more upset with the criticisms than they do. That i... ERIC HERZIK Clearly, they're reaching out to the voters who are tired of the same old thing, who are disaffected... LARRY JACOBS People who are different are considered ineffective. People who can’t hide their shortcomings are ... LYNN BLACKMAR I said this time they should put their money where their mouth is to show the government you're seri... CHANET PHENJATI Physicians are no different than you or me. They have a mortgage payment. They have tuition payments... MARK PETERS You find Latin girls who are as dark or darker than I am, so it wasn't about where they came from, .... IMAN It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own com... WANDA SYKES I choose to mind my own business. In order to improve my life & to be happy, Rather than focusin... DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS If there are princes involved, you should stay out of their way.” Jerry’s smile softened his har... PIPPA DACOSTA People see what they want to see. People say what they like to say. People hear what they always try... SALMAN AZIZ Now they have a riddle. - Criminal Minds DEYTH BANGER And what do they want!? DEYTH BANGER He is so different from his persona, not angry at all, JOY BEHAR I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then t... ALICE MUNRO My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of k... KAREN O She's put a face, she's put a persona, she's put a winning attitude and a winning stamp, on our enti... CHARLES MCCLELLAND We need to have our showers, there's some guys in here who should be showering more often than they ... LINDSEY HUNTER I don't think people should be unduly alarmed, ... They should try to keep the mosquito population d... DANIEL BLUMENTHAL More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Securi... MITCH MCCONNELL So many persons think divorce a panacea for every ill, who find out, when they try it, that the reme... DOROTHY DIX There's a persona to being an actress.... That could put anyone into the shrink's office. Especially... DIANE LANE "Always love people for who they are, not for whom you like them to be." ~ Tom Baker TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I d... ANDERSON COOPER Avoid wine and women -- choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable. WILLIAM OSLER My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer. CRAIG GROESCHEL [Marketers subscribing to this idea believe that people give more honest responses in their natural ... ROSS GOLDSTEIN But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's t... DAVID BLAINE Their pitching is no different than anybody else's. They might have a little more velocity or hit th... JAKE MORT I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. If somebody is r... JOEL OSTEEN To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ide... JEAN ROSTAND To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ide... JEAN ROSTAND One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they f... CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on h... MARC JACOBS Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on thei... NICK RAHALL Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one th... IRVING PENN There are shift workers such as nurses and factory employees who often commute at odd hours of the n... AUTUMN FOGG Just because someone looks safe, doesn't always mean they are. Always be aware of your surroundings,... BARRY TATE As Louis Cozolino Ph. D., observes, a consistent theme of adult psychotherapy clients is that they h... PEG STREEP They should make 'em more often than two days a year. GLENN SMITH LOVERS ARE SELFISH, THEY ALWAYS WANT THEIR LOVED ONES TO LOVE THEM MORE THAN EVERYTHING. BUT FRIENDS... MARKHANDEYA A person who keeps always his profile down-to-earth doesn't have to worry with those who surround or... ANUJ SOMANY Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terror... J. K. ROWLING They all think the nuttier they are, the more likely they are to get on David Letterman or Jay Leno,... BOOMER ESIASON Many want to be a warrior but they don't know what a lonely, tough, or pain staking journey it is. W... DONNA LYNN HOPE On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to pl... NATE SILVER Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film!! C.K. WEBB Those who write may think they know their target market. They may even feel they can shape the work ... CATHERINE RYAN HYDE They should be able to stand on their own after that. ROSE JOHNSON I think we should focus more, rather than less, on mobilising the middle classes. They often have a ... HELENA NORBERG-HODGE I am really angry with the people who did this, they shouldn't get away with it. By rights they shou... LISA NORRIS They're all in different stages of critical. A couple of areas are failing and a couple more were no... ERIC QUINN Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; t... SALMAN RUSHDIE Different wholesalers have different prices. They probably should be closer than they are. BILLY SHOEMAKER It is a common tragic irony that the loudest people are rarely the ones who are the smartest or most... MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're... JOHN DENVER Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately... DANIEL H. PINK Whenever a "problem" is proclaimed in the media there will almost invariably be a "solution" propose... THOMAS SOWELL They wanted something different in a story. They wanted more information than their competition. The... PAUL ZIMBRAKOS The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to kno... CANDACE BUSHNELL There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet. LIEV SCHREIBER I think that's an excellent idea. They should do that whether they have their own building departmen... GRANT TOLBERT A lot of artists say they'd be happy in a classless society. But artists are often the first to dece... BRAD HOLLAND I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superf... LARRY NORMAN A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though. VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY The deadline is set and they think I am their pet. SANTOSH KALWAR Qué engañoso creer que una persona es algo más que una persona. JOHN GREEN Que engañoso creer que una persona es algo más que una persona. JOHN GREEN I'm not sure that anybody is ready to put their cards on the table. They should be ready if they are... AMY BARRY We know there are many misconceptions on the part of consumers when it comes to long-term care insur... DEBORAH RICE They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, a... KATIE COURIC
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She was our land more than a hundred years
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