My Own Quotes - Page 32

• Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Ignorance, Years

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• Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

  Donald Cargill

  Believe, Peace With God, Sin

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• I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Believe, Heart

  "To Have and Have Not". Book by Ernest Hemingway. Chapter 21, 1937.

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• Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Mind, Cold Mountain

  Emily Bronte (1858). “Wuthering Heights”, p.72

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• Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.

  Carly Simon

  Worrying Too Much, People, Ears

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• But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

  James Merrill

  Air, Play, Two

  James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf

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• I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.

  Terry Southern

  Writing, Taste, Care

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• After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mourning, Tragedy, Sin

  1891 Intentions, 'The Critic as Artist'.

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• Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.

  Alex Trebek

  Determination, Believe, Behave

  "What I've Learned: Alex Trebek". Esquire, March 2003.

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• Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Garden, Heritage

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.114, Rutgers University Press

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• Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England, and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African.

  Nelson Mandela

  England And America, Roots, Imagination

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.190, Hachette UK

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• As a kid, I wanted to be a boy because I equated that with strength. There's a problem with that. It's only growing into my own womanhood that I realize how warped that is that I was attributing strength to male qualities.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Kids, Boys, Quality

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• I look at my own body
  With eyes no longer blind-
  And I see that my own hands can make
  The world that's in my mind.

  Langston Hughes

  Eye, Hands, Mind

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• It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.

  Nicole Kidman

  Running, Jobs, Roles

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Dec 24, 2013

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• I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Cheer, Book, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spokes, My Thoughts, Behinds

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.168, Penguin

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• The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.

  Paula Cole

  Music, Destiny, Rivers

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• I just wanted a style of music all my own.

  Bill Monroe

  Music, Style, Wanted

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• I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

  Michael Leunig

  Art, Children, Mind

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• The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Passion, People

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• And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Flower, Book, Ties

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own

  Oprah Winfrey

  Purpose, Praying, Used

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• As an author, I get paid to break my own heart on a regular basis.

  Jamie Ford

  Heart, Break, Bases

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• Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back
  I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats

  Tupac Shakur

  Dirty, Rats, Facts

  Song: Only God Can Judge Me, Album: All Eyez on Me, 1996

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• Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Forget, States, Carrie

  "The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 121, September 26, 1985.

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