Like Me Quotes - Page 23

• I would spend hours and hours gazing at the stars and wondering, what's out there? Sometimes I wondered if   maybe there was another girl like me on another planet some place gazing at the stars and thinking about the same things.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Girl, Stars, Thinking

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• I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight. It took me 30 years to get to where I am today. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It’s not going to work. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.

  Aliko Dangote

  Dream, Successful, Journey

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• Ordinary people seem to not like me. They tend to think that I’m a little weird.

  CL

  Thinking, People, Ordinary

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• All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.

  Ric Flair

  Men, Want, He Man

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• I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly, I've worked with men and women who loved their profession and who, like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.

  Harry Carey, Jr.

  Kids, Men, House

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.

  Campbell Scott

  Thinking, Sick, Too Much

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• I know sometimes I need to be more like M.J., but M.J. also needs to be more like me. He needs to be the player he is with more my mentality.

  Scottie Pippen

  Player, Needs, Sometimes

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• I'm just a loud-mouthed middle-aged colored lady with a fused spine and three feet of intestines missing and a lot of people think I'm crazy. Maybe you do too, but I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Crazy, Thinking, Feet

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, and most ruthless champion there's ever been. There's no one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No, I'm Alexander, he's no Alexander. I'm the best ever! There's never been anybody as ruthless! I'm Sonny Liston, I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There's no one that can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Fear, Heart

  YouTube Chanel "sheltonn"/ "Mike Tyson" (Interview with Jim Gray), www.youtube.com. February 5, 2006.

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• Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.

  Howard Hughes

  Men, Guy, Every Man

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Girl, Hair, Color

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• Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!

  Dorothy Parker

  Love You, Kick Ass, Hell

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• I would never wanna belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member.

  Woody Allen

  Annie Hall, Clubs, Members

  Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (2000). “Annie Hall: scénario bilingue”

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• No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

  Sigmund Freud

  Struggle, Evil, Half

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud (1953). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: case of hysteria, Three essays on sexuality, and other works”

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• Look, I'm not asking you to like me, I'm not asking you to put yourself
  in a position where I can touch your goodies, I'm just asking you to be
  fair.

  Homer

  Looks, Asking, Position

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• I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

  Fiona Apple

  People, Wanted, Ifs

  Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, sfj.abstractdynamics.org. October 04, 2005.

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• Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Impossible

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• These attacks prove one thing for certain: the liberal establishment is desperate to keep leaders like me out of office, and we are sure to hear more wild, dishonest smears during this campaign.

  Rand Paul

  Office, Leader, Campaigns

  "Rand Paul On Civil Rights Controversy: I Shouldn’t Have Talked To Rachel Maddow" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to always agree with them. They can sense this is phony. They can sense I am trying to control them: I am agreeing with them to make them like me. They feel; "I don't want to exist to like you. I DON'T exist to like you."

  Hugh Prather

  People, Justice, Trying

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.105, Bantam

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• He looks a hell of a lot like me, only a fair bit older.

  Steven Herrick

  Dad, Father, Looks

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• It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Prayer, Thinking

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• If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important - if you want to operate on your default-setting - then you, like me, will not consider possibilities that aren't pointless and annoying.

  David Foster Wallace

  Reality, Important, Want

  "One Speech by This 90s Literary Giant Holds the Key to Ending Polarization in America" by Philip Perry, bigthink.com.

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• If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  People, Acting, Ifs

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• Positive and powerful: Sometimes people won't like me, and it's okay. Positive and powerful: I like me, and that's all that matters. Positive and powerful: It's more important what I think of me than what someone else thinks of me.

  Beverly Engel

  Being Yourself, Powerful, Thinking

  Beverly Engel (2011). “AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself”, p.59, John Wiley & Sons

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  If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

  Genghis Khan

  Badass, Bad Ass, Punishment

  "History of the World Conqueror" by 'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvain, translated by J.A. Boyle, p. 105, 1958.

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