My Own Quotes - Page 24

• I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

  Lionel Blue

  Gay, Nervous, Sexuality

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• You know what? I don't care. I'm my own guy. I'm very secure with my sexuality. I can cry anytime I want.

  Brett Hull

  Guy, Care, Want

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• Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.

  Ben Vereen

  Fall, Thinking, Years

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• I had utterly abandoned myself to Him. Could any choice be as wonderful as His will? Could any place be safer than the center of His will? Did not He assure me by His very presence that His thoughts toward us are good, and not evil? Death to my own plans and desires was almost deliriously delightful. Everything was laid at His nail-scarred feet, life or death, health or illness, appreciation by others or misunderstanding, success or failure as measured by human standards. Only He himself mattered.

  V. Raymond Edman

  Appreciation, Feet, Evil

  "They Found the Secret: Twenty Transformed Lives that Reveal a Touch of Eternity".

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• Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Bruce Lee are my masters; they're the inspiration for my work. Bruce Lee was a heavy fighter who threw hard punches. Jackie moves very fast and uses a lot of comedy, and Jet Li is very fluid. I've tried to combine all of their styles and added some things of my own.

  Tatchakorn Yeerum

  Motivational, Art, Moving

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

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• It is good to read the testimonies of Scripture; it is good to seek the Lord our God in them. As for me, however, I have already made so much of Scripture my own that I have more than enough to meditate on and turn over in my mind. I need no more . .. I know Christ, the poor crucified One.

  Francis of Assisi

  Mind, Saint, Needs

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• [Marijuana] doesn't have a high potential for abuse, and there are very legitimate medical applications. In fact, sometimes marijuana is the only thing that works... [I]t is irresponsible not to provide the best care we can as a medical community, care that could involve marijuana. We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that.

  Sanjay Gupta

  Marijuana, Years, Community

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• I feel more comfortable in my own skin now than I ever have...I think there's something about loving Kai [her son] so much, in a way that I've never loved anyone, including myself. Also, I used to spend a lot of time alone, but he's this incredibly social kind of guy, so all of a sudden I'm always having people in and out of my house. It's changed the way I feel as a citizen of the world. And it's really important to me to feel good about what I'm working on, to justify the number of hours I'd have to be away from him.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Son, Motherhood, Thinking

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• If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

  Henry Adams

  Strength, Sleep, Devil

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• I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Spiritual, Cities, Circles

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• Usually, when I do a soundtrack, the music from the movie doesn't have anything to do with me personally. It's music to enhance to the film. My own stuff is more introspective and about what's on going in my head.

  Stanley Clarke

  Stuff, Film, Soundtracks

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• My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

  Herbert Read

  War, Aquariums, Discipline

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• I wanted to be my own heroine.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Heroines, Wanted

  Jesmyn Ward (2013). “Men We Reaped: A Memoir”, p.86, A&C Black

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• But there is one whom you do not deceive, and that is Christ, our Lord. He knows all. Personally, I have felt that nobody need keep much of a record about me, except what I keep myself in my mind, which is a part of my spirit. I often question in my mind, whether it is going to require very many witnesses in addition to my own wrongdoing.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Mind, Needs, Records

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• I don’t shout the loudest, and I’m quite shy, which was why I was reluctant to throw myself into the public eye. I love beauty, craftsmanship, storytelling and romance, and I probably don’t have the armor to survive the relentless competition that exists in this particular world. But I have my own toughness.

  Sarah Burton

  Eye, Love Is, Romance

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• I have a cause higher and nobler than my own, a cause to which all private interests and concerns must be subordinated.

  Leila Khaled

  Causes, Interest, Concern

  "'I made the ring from a bullet and the pin of a hand grenade'". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2001.

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• I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.

  Victoria Wood

  Rooms, Used

  "Victoria Wood betrayed in death by her big brother with explosive tell-all biography" by Simon Boyle, www.mirror.co.uk. October 1, 2016.

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• I struggle between what I know is right in my own mind, and some warped truthfulness as seen through other people's eyes who have no heart, and can't see the difference anyway.

  Ian Curtis

  Struggle, Heart, Eye

  "Fictional character: Sam Riley". "Control", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.

  Judd Apatow

  Insecurity, Able, Insight

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• I wanted to create my own world, a world full of color, where everyone could play. One big party that never ends.

  Michael Alig

  Party, Color, Play

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• If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and ... if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse... I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being's right to exist.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Mean, Fighting

  "The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z".

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• I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges.

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, Ocean, Men

  Anton Chekhov (2011). “Forty Stories”, p.11, Vintage

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• All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination or understanding. Any uncultured cretin can close his eyes and try to reduce the issues down to linear simplisms and say, "I am doubting, I am proving my magisterial or sovereign control over my own mind." Doubt is a useful and significant test of one's critical powers, but by itself it bears little if any significant cultural charge of enlightenment or satori; indeed it is the very opposite kind of thing.

  Kenny Smith

  Eye, Opposites, Issues

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• I stick to my own type when I go out, and I don't make friends with people just because they're celebrities.

  Katie Price

  People, Sticks, Type

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• If I could tell the world just one thing
  It would be that we're all OK
  And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful
  And useless in times like these
  I won't be made useless
  I won't be idle with despair
  I will gather myself around my faith
  For light does the darkness most fear
  
  My hands are small, I know
  But they're not yours, they are my own
  But they're not yours, they are my own
  And I am never broken

  Jewel

  Love, Light, Times Like These

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