#temperament

I wasn't really a performer by temperament. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#performer #really #temperament

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves. ↗

— Alice Miller

#children #defend #fact #less #mistreat

Music inflames temperament. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#temperament

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#being #believe #came #did #eccentric

I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus. ↗

— Anthony Kennedy

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It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer. ↗

— Tilda Swinton

#lot #performer #spent #temperamental #time

We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#believe #came #cast #could #crew

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#agent #artist #director #estate #him

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#hypocrisy #inconsistancy #principles #temperament #hypocrisy