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Rufus because my diaphragm gets a workout while trying to utilize the 18 vocal sounds a mole makes. Chuckie because [...] he's an asthmatic with five personalities rolled into one—plus I have to do the voice the way [Christine Cavanaugh] did it for 10 years.
nancy cartwright— Quoted in Knutzen, Eirik ((2002-08-18)). "Voice behind Bart Simpson also lends her animated talents to other TV shows". The San Diego Union-Tribune.
— In reference to voicing characters in Rugrats, whom she considers the most difficult.
In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities effectively exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.
zbigniew brzezinski— Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era (1970)
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.
Paul pseudonym of Paul Benjamin Auster— In the Sunday Times, 16 April 1989.
We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children.
Herman Mankiewicz— 1950 George Sanders as Addison De Witt in All About Eve.
Hegel says somewhere that all great events and personalities in the world reappear in one fashion or another. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
— 1852 The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, section1.
[Science] seldom proceedsinthestraightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward?are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.
— 1968 The Double Helix.
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
(Adeline) Virginia ne e Stephen Woolf— 1925 The Common Reader,'The Modern Essay'.
The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.
ralph waldo emerson— The Conservative, via Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Cycles of American History (Houghton Mifflin, 1986) p. 23
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experiences.
paul newman— Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell’s Filmgoers’ Companion (1984)
Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it.
frederick rolfe— Ch. 22, p. 343
The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed to be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and mutually understanding personalities, banded together for the common purpose of exploring the universe and developing the human spirit's manifold potentialities.
Olaf Stapledon— Ch.VII More Worlds, 1. A Symbiotic Race
The star system has us making pictures with personalities rather than stories, sacrificing everything in order to keep some old bags playing young women.
gregg toland— From an essay Toland wrote for International Photographer arguing that cinematographers needed to be uncompromising.Hilton Als (2006). "The Cameraman". The New Yorker (June 19): 46–51
I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.
lin yutang— Ch. I : The Awakening
When I consider others I can easily believe that their bodies express their personalities and that the two are inseparable. But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I, that I inhabit it like a house, and that my face is a mask which, with or without my consent, conceals my real nature from others.
wystan hugh auden— "Hic et Ille", p. 104
The roles that we construct are constructed because we feel that they will help us to survive and also, of course, because they fulfill something in our personalities; and one does not, therefore, cease playing a role simply because one has begun to understand it. All roles are dangerous. The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.
james baldwin— "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in Esquire (May 1961)
- You can make these energies very clear if you enter another kingdom that people have forgotten, and where vast powers survive as big personalities. And when I try to speak with the spiritual existences of this totality of animals, the question arises of whether one could not speak with these higher existences too, with these deities and elemental spirits.. ..The spirit of the coyote is so mighty that the human being cannot understand what it is, or what it can do for humankind in the future.
joseph beuys— p. 142 (Interviews with Caroline Tisdall, 1974 and 1978)
The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools
georg brandes— p. 20 (An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889))
Nietzsche … argues that all that passes in the life of a society is ephemeral and banausic except for the presence of great personalities, of men like Goethe … who seem to forge their own destinies, who seem to move unhampered by those burdens of existence which keep most men from rising above the vicissitudes of their daily toil.
john carroll— p. 93 (Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974))
[These entrepreneurs] were writing their stories in a subgenre of contemporary fiction, the business plan, and populating them with characters endowed with deeply implausible personalities, an oversight which would eventually be punished not by a scathing review, … but by a lack of custom.
Alain de Botton— p. 287 (The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009))
Keynes disdained inside information in fact, he once declared that Wall Street traders could make huge fortunes if only they would disregard their "inside" information and his own oracles were nothing but his minute scrutiny of balance sheets, his encyclopedic knowledge of finance , his intuition into personalities, and a certain flair for trading.
robert heilbroner— Chapter IX, John Maynard Keynes, p. 248-249
There is a limit to the success of conservative populism and the exploitation of "little guy" or "silent majority" rhetoric, and it is very often reached because of the emaciated, corrupted personalities of the demagogues themselves.
christopher hitchens— "Nixon: Maestro of Resentment" (1990)
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
carl jung— p. 49 (Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933))
Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.
ken macleod— Chapter 3 “Spectral Lines” (p. 40)
For any exam in history, here is the answer: all human history is the struggle between systems that attempt to shackle the human personality in the name of some intangible good on the one hand and systems that enable and expand the scope of human personality in the pursuit of extremely tangible aims. The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
ben stein— How to Ace an Exam. The American Spectator (15 December 2004]]). Retrieved on 2006-11-19.
In the case of complex personalities the matter stands thus: one of these can understand other men better than they can understand themselves, because within himself he has not only the character he is grasping, but also its opposite. Duality is necessary for observation and comprehension.
otto weininger— pp. 109-110
Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it.
— Ch. 22, p. 343 (Hadrian the Seventh (1904))
Islam is the first school of social thought that recognizes the masses as the basis, the fundamental and conscious factor in determining history and society not the elect as Nietzsche thought, not the aristocracy and nobility as Plato claimed, nor great personalities as Carlyle and Emerson believed, not those of pure blood as Alexis Carrel imagined, not the priests or the intellectuals, but the masses."
— Ali Shariati (1979), On the sociology of Islam: lectures. p. 49
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
walt disney— American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer (1901 - 1966)
