My Own Quotes - Page 37

• Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

  Waylon Jennings

  Records, Produce, Deals

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• I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.

  Shane Black

  Thinking, Would Be, Way

  "The Two Hollywoods: The Screenwriters; Shane Black; Harmony Korine". www.nytimes.com. November 16, 1997.

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• It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

  Jackson Browne

  Years, Fifteen, More Money

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• Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor in America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Children, War

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

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• I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Writing, Thinking, Style

  Interview With David Attwell, www.dn.se. August 12, 2008.

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• Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence

  Isaac Asimov

  Self, Appreciate, Life Is

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• I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Believe, Mean

  1818 Persuasion, ch.23.

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• I can't get excited by my own music. It's impossible.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Impossible, Excited, I Can

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• I'm very uncomfortable in my own skin.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Skins, Uncomfortable

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• In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence
  — as not-bound to life.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Order, Risk, Facts

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel Estella Barnes (1992). “Being and Nothingness”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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• I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Selfish, Shopping, Mind

  "My life in shopping". Interview with Sophie Kinsella, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2007.

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• I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter

  Kenzo Tange

  Thinking, Design, Matter

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• I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Fiction, Tedium, Company

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (2002). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.294, Grove Press

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• It's really hard to take that step-not only do I believe in something, I believe in it enough that I'm willing to set my own life on fire and burn it to the ground.

  Edward Snowden

  Believe, Fire, Steps

  www.wired.com.

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• Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

  Pope Francis

  Dignity, Humans, Human Beings

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• Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown . . . I’ve tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Color, People

  sylvia plath (1971). “the bell jar”

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• When I saw photographs of children murdered by the Fascist, I felt furious pity. When the supporters of Franco talked of Red atrocities, I merely felt indignant that people should tell such lies. In the first case I saw corpses, in the second only words. . . I gradually acquired a certain horror of the way in which my own mind worked. It was clear to me that unless I cared about every murdered child impartially, I did not really care about children being murdered at all.

  Stephen Spender

  Children, Lying, People

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• When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

  Janelle Monae

  Artist, Makeup, Hair

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• What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.

  Max Stirner

  Long

  Max Stirner (1982). “The Ego and Its Own”, p.251, Rebel Press

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• My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.

  Herbert Hoover

  Ambition, Able, Boyhood

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• I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Blood, Looks, Done

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• So I decided to start a church, for three reasons. First, I hated going to church and wanted one I liked, so I thought I would just start my own. Second, God had spoken to me in one of those weird charismatic moments and told me to start a church. Third, I am scared of God and try to do what he says.

  Mark Driscoll

  Church, Trying, Three

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• Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

  Francis Chan

  Church, Spirit, Holy

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• If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being always protected made me more fearful, and I would later dip cautiously into the outside world, never allowing myself to be submerged completely, and always jerking back into the familiarity of my own life when my senses were overwhelmed. For years I would stand with a foot in each sphere, drawn to the exotic universe that lay on the other side of the portal, wrenched back by the warnings that sounded like alarm bells in my mind.

  Deborah Feldman

  Fear, Years, Feet

  Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

  Robin Hobb

  Fear, World, Kind

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.162, Spectra

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