My Own Quotes - Page 38

• I don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own bubble. But I'm really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.

  Jason Mraz

  Journey, Weakness, World

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• I really want to get into designing my own business suit. I've designed a couple suits for myself that I've worn in the past, and I have a good idea of what I want and need to use.

  Ryan Lochte

  Couple, Past, Ideas

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• I just love crafting and shaping sounds... I like to breathe my own life into these sounds

  Imogen Heap

  Sound, Breathe, My Own Life

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• I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope
  and product of my own strength.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fashion, Sorrow, Aliens

  "Gertrude". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 4, 1910.

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• When I see my own people going through the tough times, it's a wake-up call. I hope my influence can impact someone else's decision to get out here and vote.

  Bow Wow

  Impact, People, Decision

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• It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.

  Earl Campbell

  House, Cooking, Pits

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• I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

  Rachel Stevens

  Love Is, Careers, Creative

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• No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect to dictate to me. He may censure me freely and without reserve; but he should remember that I am to act by my deliberation and not his. I ought to exercise my talents for the benefit of others; but that exercise must be the fruit of my own conviction; no man must attempt to press me into the service.

  William Godwin

  Exercise, Men, Atheism

  William Godwin, Kay Codell Carter (1971). “Enquiry concerning political justice: with selections from Godwin's other writings”, Clarendon Press

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• Much testing, much reflecting, much living must intervene before we can say, 'My soul is my own.

  Madonna Kolbenschlag

  Soul, Testing, Reflecting

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• She was perfect. I knew this the moment she emerged from my body, white and wet and wailing. Beyond the requisite ten fingers and ten toes, the beating heart, the lungs inhaling and exhaling oxygen, my daughter knew how to scream. She knew how to make herself heard. She knew how to reach out and latch on. She knew what she needed to do to survive. I didn’t know how it was possible that such perfection could have developed within a body as flawed as my own, but when I looked into her face, I saw that it clearly was.

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh

  Daughter, Heart, Oxygen

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh (2011). “The Language of Flowers”, p.173, Pan Macmillan

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• Home is in my hair, my lips, my arms, my thighs, my feet and my hands. I am my own home. And when I wake up crying in the morning, thinking of how lonely I am, I pinch my skin, tug at my hair, remind myself that I am alive. Remind myself to step outside and greet the morning. Remind myself that it’s all about forward motion. It’s all about change. It’s all about that elusive state.
  Freedom.

  Diriye Osman

  Lonely, Morning, Home

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• I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

  Andy Summers

  Cutting, Standards, Edges

  Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 25, 2016.

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• If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

  Florence Welch

  Hair, Self, Awkward

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• I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what my shape is or how I speak. I've always written my own scripts. I've always been the first to point out that I need to be fit. I need to look good.

  Anne Robinson

  Single Mom, Dresses, Needs

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• I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.

  Zedd

  Artist, Trying, Watches

  "Zedd & Tommie Sunshine Chat About ‘Clarity,’ Coming Up In DJ’ing & Fans (EXCLUSIVE)". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

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• What I do in my own time, is my business.

  Stacy Keibler

  Wwe

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• When I was in that danger...I felt like I was shaken awake...after everything she made me feel...I made a decision and went to sleep. Do you know what that's like - trying to go to sleep, and lose yourself in the hopes of burying the worst fears in your life?...I wasn't in love with the past. I was terrified of my own future.

  Brad Meltzer

  Fear, Sleep, Past

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• That Islam you see on TV does not represent me, I'm too busy waging jihad against myself, My own nafs are my enemy. I'm sorry that Muslim and Muslim lands do not represent Islam, Our religion is perfect, but we on the other hand.

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Sorry, Hands, Land

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• Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew!

  Lady G

  Giving, Birth, Torture

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• I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.

  Cher Lloyd

  Roots, Gypsy, Helping

  "Cher Lloyd: 'I don't want to be a joke'". Interview With Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2011.

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• Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

  Debby Ryan

  Would Be, Way, Music Is

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• I love Cher Lloyd's music. I didn't actually hear her music as I was creating my own, but it's cool that we have styles that are considered to be similar.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Creating, Style

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• I don't really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I inhabit. I cherry pick elements of literature, music, film, history and art, then weave them together to construct a fantasy reality to live in. It doesn't always work out though, I got evicted from my own fantasy once, which was quite embarrassing.

  Pete Doherty

  Art, Reality, Film History

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• When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.

  Moby

  Selfish, Stuff, Kind

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• I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

  Mark Gatiss

  Writing, Thinking, People

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