Personal Quotes

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.

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!

In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.

I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards.

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

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

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.