My Own Quotes - Page 17

• I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.

  Pamela Anderson

  Fun, Thinking, Careers

  "Pamela Anderson embraces new phase in life". "Larry King Live" with Larry King, www.cnn.com. July 24, 2002.

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• How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.

  Amy Tan

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.

  Susan Olsen

  Wanted, Brady

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• I love you so much. I love you enough that I want to stay separate from you. You're an extraordinary man, Frank Wright. I could so easily lose myself in your world and never make a world of my own. And where would that leave us? We'd both be bored stupid.

  Nancy Horan

  Love, Stupid, Men

  Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.145, Ballantine Books

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• I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Eat Love Pray, Shimmer, Rescue

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.344, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've always been pressured intensely to use musicians outside of my band.

  Jane Monheit

  Musician, Band, Use

  Toronto Star, November 11, 2010.

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• I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Song, Holiday, Order

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• I don't have a life of my own. I've put myself and my life at the service of the people. If necessity dictates I run, I run.. go to jail, I go to jail.. die, I die.My private aspirations are exactly the general aspirations of the people.

  Yusuf Idris

  Running, Jail, People

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• I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.

  Mira Nair

  Done, Lists, Audience

  "Becky Sharp is like me - a survivor" by Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2004.

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• My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of animals and of human beings, it would have been impossible to acquire the important knowledge needed to prevent much suffering and premature death not only among humans but also among [other] animals.

  Albert Sabin

  Animal, Years, Suffering

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• In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of what art is, an understanding that is achieved in the way that understanding in each of our lives is achieved, namely, from the mistakes we make, the false paths we follow, the false images we have come to abandon until we learn wherein our limits consist, and then how to live within those limits.

  Arthur Danto

  Art, Mistake, Philosophical

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• When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Children, Writing, Voice

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• Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Writing, Opportunity, Play

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• If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Passion, Past, Invoke

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• I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

  Joshua Slocum

  Book, Being Alone, Self

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.145, Applewood Books

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• Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I don't succeed, never mind--I've still got the dream.

  Ruskin Bond

  Dream, Garden, Mind

  Ruskin Bond, Ruskin (2008). “Ruskin Bond's Book of Nature”, p.34, Penguin Books India

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• To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.

  Ruskin Bond

  Hands, Tree, Return

  Ruskin Bond (2003). “Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas”, p.134, Penguin Books India

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• With relationships, I always had a reason why some time in the future would be better for me than it was that day. When I was fat, I thought I'd feel pretty when I was thin, and when I was thin, I thought I'd be happier if I was more toned and muscular and had more money to look more coordinated. I wasn't comfortable in my own skin unless there was a man there to tell me just how radiant that skin looked. I was a victim of low self-esteem and had the Soon syndrome bad. I was running toward a brighter future, unaware of the mirages I'd created in the distance.

  Stephanie Klein

  Running, Self Esteem, Distance

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• No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Reading, Enough, Given

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• No matter how hard it gets, I’d rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss

  Chino XL

  Blood, Soldier, Coward

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• As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

  Jim Hodges

  Strong, Emotional, Reactions

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• I’m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I’d ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, I’ve glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. I’ve sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate.

  Susan Jane Gilman

  Ignorance, Complicated World, Velocity

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• Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now

  Tim Tharp

  Goodbye, Littles, Disappear

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.230, Scholastic UK

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• Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Meditation, Height

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• There is something very healthy about finding support from others during difficult times. I needed it for my own healing.

  Beth Moore

  Healing, Support, Healthy

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