Personal Quotes

If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom.

I wish to clarify that I have absolutely not made a decision regarding my participation in the next Olympics. On a personal level, playing in the Olympics would be a huge honour. However, the Games in Rio are still four years away and I certainly won't be making any decisions with regards to participating any time soon.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now.

For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.

I would like to state that my personal opinions are that the people of every country should decide by themselves what kind of government they want.

I said, 'Wouldn't it be great if Matt Damon's character fell in love with a girl with a real butt?' They were like, 'Yeah sure, sure - here's your personal trainer.'

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music.

Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.

I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.

And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.

We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.