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Voting is an individual, personal thing. -- Hill Harper
Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments. -- Elie Wiesel
Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing. -- Lena Headey
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
When you set a goal, it's a personal thing, and that goal should be very big, hairy and audacious. -- Tony Bates
Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire. -- Swizz Beatz
How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing. -- Les Dawson
I really didn't want to have my name on the center, because it just seemed like it was too much of a personal thing. -- Betty Ford
I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me. -- Maia Mitchell
Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way. -- Debby Ryan
Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it. -- Vint Cerf
Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at the same thing. -- Colin Mochrie
Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever. -- Joyce Brothers
The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding. -- John Warnock
I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing. -- Alan Ball
I'm extremely happy, but I don't do love songs for the most part. It feels weird; that's such a personal thing to me. I'd rather live that in my real life and play a different character outside of that. -- Carrie Underwood
I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me. -- Mandy Moore
It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else. -- David Lynch
I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well. -- Miguel
I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which is not a good personal thing. I don't stop and enjoy those moments... Always on to the next and never in the moment. -- Nicki Minaj
I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing. -- Chris Carter
I can't imagine having a real personal thing, like divorce and marriage, all those things, being in the public eye. I try to not talk about anything personal, and then nobody has the fire to throw back at you, like 'You said this back then!' -- Kirsten Dunst
As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or six feet long. How I dress is a very personal thing. It is scary that every time I wear a T-shirt, it becomes a talking point for the next three days. -- Sania Mirza
Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. -- Bjork
Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion. -- Kristen Stewart
I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that. -- Anna Kendrick
I think writing is a much more personal thing. -- Patrick Stump
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing. -- Calvin Coolidge
Everybody's got their own particular vision which is a personal thing. -- Van Morrison
It's a despicable thing to share your personal inner torment for money. -- Frank Zappa
Style is such a personal thing; it's your way to be an individual. -- Taylor Swift
I couldn't only do one thing--I don't want the personal hell of oneness. -- Itzhak Perlman
Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing. -- Epictetus
Style is a very personal thing and women should develop their own individual look. -- Cat Deeley
I would say my return to my faith is - it's a very personal thing. -- Jim Gaffigan
Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally. -- Joseph Barbera
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable. -- Damon Hill
Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness -- Gretchen Rubin
Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people wont. -- Stephen Mangan
Being happy is a very personal thing-and it really has nothing to do with anyone else. -- Esther Hicks
The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience. -- David Steinberg
I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show. -- Matt Stone
Sex is such a personal thing - why do we insist on sharing it with another person? -- Jane Wagner
The fact that I get to write and direct my own personal story is an amazing thing. -- Nicole Holofcener
I think as an artist that's the best thing you can have - a personal stamp on something. -- Elle Fanning
When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email. -- James G. Stavridis
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have. -- Virginia C. Andrews
Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics. -- Khem Veasna
Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger. -- E. M. Forster
It's a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition. -- Kevin Spacey
Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition. -- Kevin Spacey
I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing. -- Martha Wainwright
Personal testimony of the gospel and the Church is the most important thing you can earn in this life. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous. -- Brooke Shields
Personal branding is one thing that you just can't do well on your own. You are too close to it, -- Gina Bianchini
To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina. -- Roman Coppola
The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all. -- Bob Cousy
I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual. -- Sela Ward
The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working. -- Melanie Lynskey
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them. -- Maggie Smith
Why sing music that you get to choose that isn't personal to you? That is the great thing about what I do. -- Karen Mason
I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing. -- Steve Perry
A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity. -- Diane Kruger
Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses. -- Arnold Newman
Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books. -- Isaac Asimov
Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be embarrassed. -- Julia Stone
I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways. -- Ron Howard
I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies. -- Charlize Theron
The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength. -- Manny Pacquiao
My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death. -- Bear Grylls
My interest in fragrance is really a personal thing. I've always gravitated toward them and appreciate the subtle, meaningful way they express who you are. -- Erin Heatherton
Music is a very personal thing, so if you hear one type of song that you don't like, you pass judgment on whole band's repertoire. -- Chris Metzler
Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost. -- Glenn Beck
On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do. -- Zachary Levi
How about this John Edwards thing? Imagine that, a personal injury attorney who turns out to be a sleaze ball. Who could have seen that coming? -- Jay Leno
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis. -- George Bernard Shaw
I used to talk about my personal life all the time. It's the most fun thing to talk about, the people in my life are hurt. -- Claire Danes
All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to. -- Rachel Bilson
People's stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them. -- William Deresiewicz
I always want to teach things that help people with their personal lives, their financial lives and their legacies, so this was a huge thing for me. -- Andy Andrews
I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously. -- Terence McKenna
I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot. -- Tom Colicchio
My personal style is over-the-top dowager. The old days they said get dressed and take one thing off, I say get dressed and put one thing on. -- Joan Rivers
People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his heart out, bares his soul. -- Craig Finn
So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any personal involvement. -- Michael Ondaatje
I think the most important thing is just if you hire people whose personal values match the corporate core values - and not just the stated ones. -- Tony Hsieh
When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it. -- Kristy Swanson
I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good. -- Cynthia Payne
Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing. -- Zooey Deschanel
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My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there. -- Tony Robbins
There is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility. -- Cornel West
Awareness of approach to death can be a beautiful thing, a frame into which we can put the work of art that is our life, our personal masterpiece. -- June Singer
Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something. -- Mother Teresa
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. -- Charles Simeon
The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person. -- Candace Bushnell
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine. -- Henry Rollins
I've learned not to attach personal feelings to critics who review your work. It's their opinions, their perceptions - it's a very subjective thing, and you can be hurt. -- Steven Bauer
Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement. -- Napoleon Hill
Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books. -- Erik Larson
Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster. -- Howard Hodgkin
My thing is personal freedoms: freedoms for the individual to love whom they want, do with what they want. In fact, I want the government out of almost everything. -- Rob Lowe
In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment. -- Ken Robinson
Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot. -- George Eliot
You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently. -- Dave Eggers
It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking. -- David Longstreth
If you look at revenge we are still winning three one you know, so I don't think it is a question of revenge, is a question of a personal thing -- Jose Mourinho
Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't. -- Mike Ditka
My own son feels I'm uncool but my grandson loves me. Being cool or uncool is a generational thing. But as a personal thing, I really love everybody in sight. -- Jack Kirby
People's faith, people's beliefs are such a personal thing, and it defies definition. I'm so rarely interested in discussing what I believe or what you believe. I think it's liquid, anyway. -- Lorraine Toussaint
It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history. -- Klaus Nomi
I think music is a very personal thing and it doesn't necessarily have to be experienced one way or another, but the album experience is a completely different thing than the single experience. -- Mark Stoermer
The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power. -- Orson Welles
I feel religion is basically and essentially a communication between a man and his God and I think it is the most personal thing of all and I don't think it concerns too many people. -- Pierre Trudeau

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