Quotes About Personal

This magical thinking, this idea that human and personal progress is somehow inevitable, leads to political passivity. … It has turned whole nations, such as the United States, into self-consuming machines of death.

The difficult task of learning how to make moral choices, how to accept personal responsibility, how to deal with the chaos of human life is handed over to God-like authority figures. The process makes possible a perpetuation of childhood. It allows the adult to bask in the warm glow and magic of divine protection. It

I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes.

When I was little, I got to pick my hair ribbon from my mother's collection that hung over her dressing-table mirror. I have an entire room of ribbons in my New York apartment.

I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.

'The Missing Picture' is about my story and my parents. Before this film, I never said 'I' in a film, so it is very personal.

For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

Mitch, Mitchell - I don't care, but my mom prefers Mitchell. I'll answer to either one.

Even in Hollywood, there are personal descents that evoke only sad shakes of the head, especially where there's sheer, unassailable talent in the mix.

I really like to look professional but also have personal flare. You will never find me in head-to-toe designer - I like to mix it up.

With clothes, I like mixing what different designers do until it becomes a personal expression of how I'm feeling that day.

The iPhone revolutionised the mobile industry, rather like the iPod before it with the personal music player.

I've never hung around with any models. I've always hung around with my friends from school and kept myself to myself.

I used to call my grandmother 'Nana,' so that seems right to me, but maybe I'll just be 'Jade', in that modern way.

Not everybody has their first kiss in front of 200 extras and their mom.

People always have something to say about how long is too long or not long enough to breastfeed. I think this is such a personal decision that it can only be made between each baby and his or her mommy.

I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional, and it is all personal.

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

I started writing diaries, and mine were horrible. Oh, the monotony. Oh, the angst. I said, 'I don't want anyone to find these!' I destroyed them.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

I can be in a beautiful, loving and caring relationship, but it can't be 24x7 and 30 days a month. At the end of the day, I need my time alone.

I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue.

I have my own definitions of success. And I have my own definitions of country music that, luckily, I share with more people than I realized before.

Makeup is no different than clothes and accessories - it's embellishments for your face. And it also gives you creative freedom. You get to have that moment in front the mirror every morning and give yourself self-love. You're making yourself up beautiful, which is essentially self-love.