My Own World Quotes - Page 2

• Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

  A.S. King

  Different, World, Want

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• Whatever way you put it, I am here only because my world is here. When I took my first breath, my world was born with me. When I die, my world dies with me. In other words, I wasn't born into a world that was already here before me, nor do I live simply as one individual among millions of other individuals, nor do I leave everything behind to live on after me. People live thinking of themselves as members of a group or society. However, this isn't really true. Actually, I bring my own world into existence, live it out, and take it with me when I die.

  Kosho Uchiyama

  Thinking, People, Groups

  Kōshō Uchiyama (1993). “Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Isn't it great to know that you cannot control your world from the outside? To try and control things on the outside feels impossible because it would take so much work, and in fact it is impossible according to the law of attraction.
  To change your world all you have to do is manage your thoughts and feelings on the inside of you, and then your whole world changes.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Feelings, Trying

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• At an early age I discovered the beauty in pictures in 'Vogue' magazine and Ebony magazine, and I would read 'The New York Times.' I had to make my own world within my world because I was an only child.

  Andre Leon Talley

  New York, Children, Vogue Magazine

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• I get atomic, hypo-galactical...
  Word to mom, I'm in my own world.
  Galaxy rays? Powerful.

  Kool Keith

  Mom, Powerful, Rap

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• If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!

  Tom DeLonge

  Land, World, Empires

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• I used to be able to sit in a chair and for four hours straight in a very focused meditative way be in my own world without ay interruption. And now it's like your brain is getting so trained to check your phone, and there is like a dopamine release every time you get a text whether it's a good or a bad one. I'm really worried about what it's doing to our minds.

  Brit Marling

  Phones, Brain, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Determination, Cells

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• If the mountains fell in the sea, Let it be, it ain't me. Got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind. If all the hippies cut off their hair, I don't care, I don't care. Did, 'cos I got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Hippie, Cutting, Hair

  Jimi Hendrix, Roger St. Pierre (1986). “Jimi Hendrix: recorded poems”

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• I was very much in my own world, never the popular kid. But I had a great family, a great brother and mother.

  Jared Leto

  Mother, Brother, Kids

  "Jared Leto: His recent roles have been dark, but his future is bright". Interview with David A. Keeps, www.interviewmagazine.com. March, 2002.

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• I made clothes because I was looking for something that didn't exist. I had to try to create my own world.

  Thierry Mugler

  Clothes, Trying, World

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• I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.

  Terry McMillan

  Mother, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• healthy, adj. There are times when I'm alone that I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my thoughts and my small acts of creation and my ability to go or do whatever I want to go or do. I am myself, and that is the point. Pairing is a social construction. It is by no means necessary for everyone to do it. Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Thinking, Small Acts

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.105, Macmillan

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• I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.

  Ian Mcewan

  World, Shapes, Form

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• I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's?

  Nick Hornby

  World, Feels, My Own

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.299, Penguin

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• When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Writing, World, Instruments

  "Lenny Kravitz: The ‘Precious’ Interview With Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless love of my mother. I have none of the plodding, practical love. . . . . I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, Selfless, World

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.98, Anchor

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• A lot of my friends they call me 'the therapist'. They come to me looking for advice. I must be doing something right because they keep coming back. But I'm not very good at kind of looking into my own world and trying to pick apart what is really wrong and fix those things. I like to kind of shy away from certain issues and turn away.

  Janet Jackson

  Issues, Advice, Trying

  "Tyler Perry, Jill Scott, and Janet Jackson Wonder Why Did I Get Married?". Press conference, movieweb.com. October 9, 2007.

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• I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.

  John Dominic Crossan

  Discipline, World, Shock

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

  Masiela Lusha

  Children, Passion, Needs

  "REEL Lady: Masiela Lusha". reelladies.wordpress.com. September 1, 2008.

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• I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Agents, World, My Own

  "Helena Bonham Carter: 'We're the bonkers couple'" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2010.

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• Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

  Hugh Hefner

  Acceptance, Creating, Peers

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• I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography

  Christina Milian

  Japan, World, Hours

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• I've recorded a lot of vocals so far and I think they're kinda still in my own world, but I do have that urge sometimes. You want to push yourself to do other things.

  Spencer Krug

  Thinking, World, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I guess like any writer or screenwriter I'm alone in my own world so much of the time that I'm often trying to force myself out of my world. Into more risk. A less controlled kind of inspiration. I'm so keenly aware of how easy it's getting to not leave the house, with Amazon, especially.

  Miranda July

  Inspiration, House, Risk

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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