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There is no more direct or honest person than Jim Clapper.

There is no more direct or honest person than Jim Clapper.

Dianne Feinstein
Nsa, Honest, Persons
"This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. June 9, 2013.

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

Dennis Ritchie
Careers, Influence, Persons

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

David D. Burns
Limits, Accepting, Persons
David D. Burns (1980). “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”

Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.

Dallas Willard
Ego, Wounded, Persons

Not wanting to see, not wanting to be in touch with one's experience is something akin to cognitive laziness, an eclipse of the experiencer or inner witnessing in the person.

Claudio Naranjo
Laziness, Eclipse, Persons

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Stories, Ability, Persons
"The danger of a single story". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July, 2009.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Aristotle
Endeavor, Persons, Ought

Each person has a literature inside them.

Anna Deavere Smith
Literature, Persons

It's easier to be with somebody. But it's better to be single if you're with the wrong person.

Angelina Jolie
Wrong Person, Easier, Persons

What one person does, several people usually consider.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
People, Doe, Persons
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Hawksong”, p.213, Delacorte Press

A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

Alan Watts
Thinking, Too Much, Persons

To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip.

Alan Cohen
Thinking, Ego, Persons

True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Worship, True Worship, Persons

I lost the person I intended to keep.

Wiz Khalifa
Meaningful, Lost, Persons

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

William Hazlitt
Modesty, Great Person, Persons

What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?

William Golding
Kind, Humans, Persons

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

Wayne Newton
Today, Persons, Happened

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo
World, Persons, Trapped

We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

Trey Parker
Rip, People, Persons
"Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Americans" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2011.

At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.

Tim Duncan
Clown, Persons, Ifs

What a person does is what he IS, not what he says.

Syd Field
Doe, Persons
Syd Field (2009). “Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay”, p.262, Delta

In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.

Susan Sontag
Persons, Journal, Keeping A Journal
Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.322, Macmillan

There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write

Stevie Nicks
Writing, Fantasy, Persons

The Person is a bubble on Time's sea.

Sri Aurobindo
Sea, Persons, Bubbles
Sri Aurobindo (1994). “Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series”, p.132, Lotus Press

A wise person will listen and take in more instruction.

Solomon
Wise, Instruction, Persons

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