You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.
Aldrich Ames

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.
Aldrich Ames

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
Bela Lugosi

I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.
Catherine Deneuve

People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog!
Sophia Bush

It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on.
Bob Geldof

I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds.
Marc Wallice

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.
Martin Scorsese

How can women be as thin as we are? We have personal trainers to work us out. We have specially prepared meals.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Amos Bronson Alcott

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
Amos Bronson Alcott

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
Norman O. Brown

There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.
Lynne Cheney

What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.
Herb Ritts

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.
Wentworth Miller

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
Bjork

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
Rebecca West

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
Talcott Parsons

This question about Iraq has gotten personal.
Gerhard Schroder

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.
Max Bill