My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.
Without theater, I don't think I would have thought I was a smart person or excelled at anything.
There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.
Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.
I don't really like talking. I like to execute. I'm not a talking person. I'm an action person.
I don't think there's a fan out there who hasn't had a family member or known someone personally who's been in the midst of divorce - perhaps not necessarily gotten the divorce or executed it, or perhaps they have - and still, in many cases, they found themselves back with the person that they were married to.
Presidential powers are not exercised by a body or group. The Constitution vests 'all executive power' in one and only one person - the president.
An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.
I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.
And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.
You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.
It's a terrible thing to say, and I probably shouldn't say it, but I'm a lazy person when it comes to physical exertion. I don't like gyms unless I need to for a movie or a part or a show.
The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
Being a black person in America is exhausting.
One person has a responsibility not just for himself but for inter-relationships with the existences of others and the world.
I think the kind of person that gravitates toward New York is a person that's not so much focused on controlling exactly how they appear and how they exit. They're more fascinated with the process.
There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.
