My Own Quotes - Page 36

• Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.

  Brian Sibley

  Night, Thinking, Numbers

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• I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Life, War, Thinking

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• In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.

  James Young

  Mind, Groups, Individual

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• I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.

  Ray Walston

  Movie, Kids, New Orleans

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• I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Thinking, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.

  Herb Ritts

  New York, Hygiene, California

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• In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Believe, Past, Ideas

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.327, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mind, Speak

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.108, Stanford University Press

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• I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the figures the meanings of the demonstrations, meanings which I myself originally put into the figures and the text from my mind. But when I attempt to remedy the obscurity of the material by putting in extra words, I see myself falling into the opposite fault of becoming chatty in something mathematical.

  Johannes Kepler

  Fall, Reading, Science

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• That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again!

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mistake, Fall, Facts

  Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

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• At this time I choseas friends two little girls of my own age; but how shallow are the hearts of creatures! Oneof them had to stay at home for some months; while she was away I thought about her veryoften, and on her return I showed how pleased I was. However, all I got was a glance of indifference-my friendship was not appreciated. I felt this very keenly, and I no longer soughtan affection which had proved so inconstant. Nevertheless I still love my little school friend,and continue to pray for her, for God has given me a faithful heart, and when once I love,I love for ever.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, Girl, Home

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• For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that - maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want.

  Elle Fanning

  Love, Baby, School

  "Elle Fanning Spills Her Biggest Fashion Risk!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. December 29, 2011.

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• My own movement of thought is not meant to be a straight point-to-point, linear line of march, but horizontal exploration from one area of interest to another. There is no ultimate destination - no finish line to cross, no final conclusion to be reached. It's the way I feel about dancing - you move around a lot, not to get somewhere, but to be somewhere in time.

  Robert Fulghum

  Moving, Dancing, Finals

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.26, Ivy Books

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• They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today-my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Ghetto, Home, Boys

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

  Woodrow Wilson

  Business, Equality, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-”

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• I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Hope, Eye, Looks

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.60

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• I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.

  Kristen Stewart

  Funny, Body, Want

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• [At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very much interested in what they were doing, and they left me alone. And I was able to experiment on my own, and I found this very stimulating. It appealed to the creative person in me.

  Stephanie Kwolek

  Science, Men, Discovery

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• I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.

  Winston Churchill

  Sunshine, Swimming, Hands

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• During job interviews, when they ask: 'What is your worst quality?', I always say: 'Flatulence'. That way I get my own office.

  Dan Thompson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of desire. It is possible I avoided learning the names of composers and their music the better to close my eyes and listen to the mystery of all music as an ocean. It may be I have not learned dates in history in order to reach the essence of timelessness. It may be I never learned geography the better to map my own routes and discover my own lands. The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

  Anais Nin

  Ocean, Eye, Order

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• What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspiration, Curious, Mortality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have started my own foundation. It's called Follow Your Art. It's at its infancy but my goal is to mentor teenage girls through one of the most difficult times in their lives.

  Nadine Velazquez

  Girl, Art, Teenage

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• I love being married. I was single for a long time, and I just got so sick of finishing my own sentences.

  Brian Kiley

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• I do not believe that there is any secret or single formula for success, but there are common threads of thought and action that characterize the successful people that I have been fortunate enough to know and observe. I do know, from my own experience, that our chance of succeeding is much greater when we organize and take charge of our lives. When we are willing to make decisions, we aggressively pursue those things in life that are important to us.

  Merlin Olsen

  Leadership, Sports, Believe

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