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There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with your child, there's nothing like it. It has its own character and it's so serious and so powerful, and so it's a prism through which I see everything.
Annette Bening
Love
Family
Nature
Character
You
Parents
Partner
Own
Nothing
Everything
See
Through
Powerful
Like
Spouse
Prism
Friends
Child
Which
Your
Your Child
Connection
Serious
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle
Character
Disposition
Virtue
Virtuous
Statesman
Moral
Citizens
Moral Character
Performance
Namely
Most
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
His
Anxious
Produce
Certain
Actions
People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.
Bobby Bowden
Life
Adversity
Character
You
People
Brilliant
Tough
Think
Way
Some
Case
Could
Never
Develop
Had
Like
Most
Felt
Without
Always
Been
Just
Them
Successful
Prepared
The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?
Bradley Whitford
Character
You
Yourself
Dirty
Feet
Without
How
Issue
Get
Done
Order
Want
Really
Mud
Your
Show
Inch
Suffocating
But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.
Christian Bale
Character
You
Happy
Yourself
Sit
Else
Embarrassing
Embarrassment
Ya
Learned
Built
Get
Endlessly
Much
Really
Certain
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
Corliss Lamont
Freedom
Character
Independence
Outside
Self
True
True Character
True Freedom
Altogether
Subject
According
Capacity
Acting
Coercion
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
David Seabury
Work
Love
Jealousy
Nature
Character
Hate
Power
Destiny
Ours
Follow
Gives
Shall
She
Reverence
Handiwork
Love And Hate
Impulse
Which
Us
Choose
Her
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
David Seabury
Art
Good
Character
Humor
Practice
Trait
Which
Requires
It's fun being one of the boys. It's fun to have a character that's rough and gets down and dirty and not to be this precious girl who just sits in the corner and just sort of stands by the action.
Diane Kruger
Character
Girl
Action
Down
Corner
Dirty
Sort
Boy
Precious
Gets
Just
Being
Who
Stands
Fun
Rough
Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.
Don Miguel Ruiz
Life
Character
You
Integrity
Yourself
Whatever
Beneath
Spirit
Perceive
Voice
Main
Main Character
Make
Read
Another
Always
Hear
Dictates
Story
Then
Your
Agreements
Four
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
Gary Gygax
Character
You
Game
Experience
Yourself
Losing
Value
Whatever
Wild
Else
Secret
Wild West
Those
Rather
Winning
Involved
Genre
Sort
West
Get
Vicariously
Whether
Fantasy
Agents
Things
Imagining
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
George Matthew Adams
Character
Man
Soul
Genius
Money
Unhappy
Nothing
Remain
Talent
Greater
Fame
Friends
Than
Die
May
Bankrupt
Useless
Comparatively
Compare
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Hosea Ballou
Education
Character
Mother
Word
Every
Tends
Knee
Spoken
Toward
Within
Hearsay
Children
Formation
Little
Little Children
Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
Jimmy Johnson
Good
Character
You
People
Cause
Made
Leader
Military
Good Leader
Follow
Born
Something
Leaders
Your
The happiest ones are those who have a character which would prefer their services to be unknown to all generations.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Character
Unknown
Those
Would
Generations
Which
Happiest
Prefer
Who
Services
Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.
Patch Adams
Love
Character
You
Love Yourself
Yourself
Humanity
People
First
Hug
Whatever
Clown
Assumes
Trick
Percent
Had
Contact
Still
Close
Get
Clowning
Your
Trauma
Second
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries
Love
Character
Marriage
Personality
Fall
Live
Difficulty
Must
Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
T. B. Joshua
Character
You
School
Mark
Marked
Papers
Go
Your
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin Crisp
Happiness
Life
Character
Plant
Other
Immature
Solely
Consists
Would
Some
Deliberately
Consuming
Development
Toward
Most
Method
Self-Sufficiency
Person
Hands
Human
Human Beings
Moving
Whole
Beings
Describe
Searching
Desire
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
Alexander Pope
Character
Man
Business
Relative
Nobody
Abuse
Like
Don't let anyone make you believe the length of your skirt is a measure of your character.
Amitabh Bachchan
Character
You
Believe
Make
Anyone
Length
Your
Measure
Skirt
An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character.
Anthony Bourdain
Life
Time
Character
Me
Made
My Life
Big
Enough
Back
Mine
Tell
Kind
Take
Knew
Employer
Sort
Big Difference
Up
Patch
Person
Difference
After
Who
Rough
Basic
I don't care about my character here on earth. I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.
Brigham Young
Character
Me
People
Care
Before
Think
Other
Earth
Say
About
Lord
dont Care
Standing
Here
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
Cal Thomas
Character
Broken
Laws
More
Anguished
Cry
Souls
Homes
Conscience
Streets
Violent
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
Calvin Coolidge
Character
Wealth
Thrift
Self-Control
Industry
Sought
Because
Create
Going through 'The Partridge Family,' I looked up to people like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and all those guys. But as an actor playing a part, I had to sing what was right for the character and the show.
David Cassidy
Family
Character
People
Those
Clapton
Guys
Through
Had
Part
Like
Looked
Sing
Beck
Eric
Eric Clapton
Up
Going
Show
Jeff
Jeff Beck
Actor
Right
Playing
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