Personal Quotes

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.
David Rockefeller

Kindness, Heart, Small

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.
Susan Lieberman

Love, Living, Pride

A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.
Simon Mainwaring

Government, Debt, Interested

Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.
Simon Mainwaring

Support, Move, Behavior

The launch of Google+ apps sends a powerful signal - the personalized web has begun. What this means is that the way information is structured and accessed will turn on the individual, or rather their personal profile which is a composite of all the data collected on the basis of what they have searched for and shared.
Simon Mainwaring

Powerful, Rather, Means

Brands are faced with the daily challenge of massively scaling their outreach in order to build personal relationships. While this may seem like a contradiction in terms, it becomes much more possible when brands shift from push to pull dynamics in their marketing.
Simon Mainwaring

Daily, May, Challenge

Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media).
Simon Mainwaring

Job, May, Thoughts

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
Manuel Puig

Short, Problems, Rather

Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?
Liam Neeson

Why, Tell, Anyone

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
Sally Schneider

Work, Book, Chef

I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.
Marilyn vos Savant

Change, Strong, Gay

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
Marilyn vos Savant

Wrong, Between, Difference

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
Alan Alda

Work, True, Artist

Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.
Carly Fiorina

Great, Cancer, Empathy

Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.
Rick Perry

Government, Lives, Less

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.
Julian Clary

Religion, Spiritual, Found

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

Life, Work, Important

I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
Alexander McQueen

Good, Proud, Style

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
Alexander McQueen

Together, Fashion, Individual

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
Vernon Howard

Truth, Matter, Viewpoint

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.
Helena Bonham Carter

Life, Problems, Often

And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.
John Boehner

Trust, Freedom, Government

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
Ang Lee

Big, Chance, Film

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.
Henry Louis Gates

American, Growth, President

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.
Janice Dickinson

Experience, Speak, Behind

The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.
Brooke Shields

Life, Proud, Actually

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.
Hugh Mackay

Change, Feeling, Enough

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.
Norah Jones

Good, Song, Stuff

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
Maya Lin

Freedom, Dream, American

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
Toni Morrison

Women, Two, Rights

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