Quotes About Personal

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

Reading, like prayer, remains one of our few private acts.

No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.

Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

There ain't nothing but one thing wrong with every one of us, and that's selfishness.

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

However much people want to politicize every movement of a controversial woman in life or on the screen, we just have to keep being personal and truthful, or we will explode.

Truthfully, I mostly can be as private as I want.

I have a very intrusive life, I guess you could say. I think that a lot of people know too much about me, truthfully.

I've never done a lot of collaborations. Truthfully, artists most of the time are so busy, they never get a chance to get in the studio and be personal with a record.

Unfortunately, we no longer live in a culture where what is spoken about and what truths are told and what lies are told are objective any more, so my personal feeling is that you have to try to take them on.

I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.

Everybody has their own style. I'm very particular in what I like, and I try to keep it that way. I always have big appreciation for other people's styles, and I love seeing how other people dress themselves through their own influences.

My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.

I've had a tummy tuck - we all know that.

My involvement in the Simpson criminal trial was a personal matter and did not involve Movie Tunes, its distributors or exhibitors.

I used to sneak gospel tunes into my old records, just as kind of a personal thing.

What was a very private childhood hobby turned into a very a public, professional job, and I think that there's a lot of inhibition that can grow from that.

My comedy is my life turned into jokes. I think a lot of people wouldn't like that because you end up talking about stuff where you don't always come out so well. You have to be prepared to say, 'This is me, being a prat.'