My Own Quotes - Page 30

• While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely.

  Bill Hicks

  Religious, Years, Freedom Of Speech

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• In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean." I pointed this passage out to Mom and said it closely matched my own views-I just didn't think about religion.

  Will Schwalbe

  Mom, Atheist, Believe

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.85, Vintage

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• I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

  Patrice Leconte

  Cinema, Affection, Feels

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• I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.

  Kerry King

  Play, Benefits, Affection

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• I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything about it one way or another. I was alone and singularly free, working into my own, unknown-no one to satisfy but myself. I began with charcoal and paper and decided not to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted to do in black and white. I believe it was June before I needed blue.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Believe, Black And White

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr

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• I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

  Graham Nash

  Photography, Years, Photographer

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• Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Shy, Band, Kingdoms

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• I thank the Father that His Only Begotten Son did not say in defiant protest at Calvary, "My body is my own!" I stand in admiration of women today who resist the "fashion of abortion, by refusing to make the sacred womb a tomb!"

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Fashion, Father, Son

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• When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.

  Tycho Brahe

  Stars, Eye, Science

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• Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Giving, Grace, Weakness

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• I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.

  Christian Bale

  Attitude, Dad, Father

  "New Again: Christian Bale". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

  George Grosz

  Fighting, Games, Self

  George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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• Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Looks, Excess

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 9, 1595.

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• From time to time, like many other players, I glance through my own games of earlier years, and return to positions and variations which have gone out of practice. I attempt to restore them, to find new ideas and plans.

  Efim Geller

  Player, Years, Practice

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• If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London; for life in the country is the only state which has always completely satisfied me, and I had never been allowed to gratify it, even for a few weeks at a time. Now I was to know the joys of six or seven months a year among fields and woods of my own, and the childish ecstasy of that first spring outing at Mamaroneck swept away all restlessness in the deep joy of communion with the earth.

  Edith Wharton

  Country, Spring, Years

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• I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks' and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Girl, Character, Thinking

  "Cozy Up to The Class' Queen of Snark!". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. October 7, 2006.

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• I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

  Jane Birkin

  Sad, Home, Mirrors

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• I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.

  Josh Ryan Evans

  Growing Up, Home, Character

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

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• I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

  Charles Kuralt

  Desire, Narcissism, Knows

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• I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Next Day, Care

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• I have my own dance and production companies, and acting is my creative outlet. It's what I'm passionate about. I've actually created a lifestyle where I could act for free. I could get a job to pay the bills and act on the weekends to make me smile.

  Brian J. White

  Jobs, Weekend, Creative

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• This pen is my only outlet, my only voice, because I have no one else to speak to, no mind but my own to drown in and all the lifeboats are taken and all the life preservers are broken and I don't know how to swim I can't swim I can't swim and it's getting so hard. It's getting so hard. It's like there are a million screams caught inside of my chest but I have to keep them all in because what's the point of screaming if you'll never be heard and no one will ever hear me in here. No one will ever hear me again.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Taken, Voice, Broken

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• I set my toothbrush down, then leaned into the mirror and stared into my own eyes. I could feel myself disintegrating inside myself like a past-bloom flower in the wind. Every time I moved a muscle, another petal of me blew away. Please, I thought. Please.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Flower

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.40, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

  Roger Penrose

  Thinking, Years, Long

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• I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Names, Want

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