My Own Quotes - Page 39

• I don't consider myself a racist, I don't hate other peoples, but I certainly want to preserve my own. And I think that's true of all people.

  David Duke

  Hate, Thinking, People

  David Duke Podcast, www.davidduke.com. August 25, 2006.

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• In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

  Hugh Hefner

  Fun, Social, Significant

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• My beloved grows right out of my own heart. How much more union can there be.

  Rumi

  Heart, Unions, Beloved

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• My heart is closed, soon it will crumble away. Stifling my tears, I scream every day. My heart has shown me that believing is nothing. My own heart killed me.

  Kyo

  Believe, Heart, Tears

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• If I don't have fun, it's my own damn fault.

  Susan Messing

  Fun, Faults, Damn

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• Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males.

  James Taranto

  College, White, Disrespect

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• Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

  Daryl Hall

  Hero, Singers, Influence

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

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• As I was getting interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, or some big pub guy, all I remember was that he went off to the bathroom for a second, and they brought out my omelet. The next thing I remember, I woke up, and I was on the side of my own omelet, and there was no one at Buck's. Everyone was gone. They just let me sleep.

  Max Levchin

  Wall, Sleep, Guy

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• My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time I have held or been held, every time I have listened or been listened to, experience burns like wood in that eternal fire, and I find myself in the presence of love. This has always been so.

  Mark Nepo

  Powerful, Believe, Fire

  Mark Nepo (2007). “The Exquisite Risk: Daring to Live an Authentic Life”, p.27, Harmony

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• I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

  Anita Baker

  Song, Writing, Albums

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• Though man or angel judge my life and read it like an open scroll, And weigh my heart, I have judge more just than any—my own soul.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Heart, Angel, Men

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• I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophy, Light, Doubt

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “The indispensable Rousseau”, Quartet Books (UK)

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• Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.

  Dennis Flanagan

  Failure, Science, Feelings

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• I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Art, People, Different

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• At first I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice I guess.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Voice, Trying, Sound

  Interview with Kieran Yates, www.dazeddigital.com. October 25, 2013.

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• I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me.

  Henry Flagler

  Tyrants

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• Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I have to run every single time. There's a little bit of OCD involved, but I love it.

  Nate Ruess

  Running, Central Park, Wake Up

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• I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

  Brad Grey

  Style, Way, Strategy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.

  Brad Grey

  Running, Race, Sweat

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.

  Jan Smuts

  Soul, Way, Spirit

  "Holism and Evolution". Book by Jan Smuts, 1926.

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• If I wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, I must not fix my mind on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to me... If I wish to extricate myself from a dangerous position, I must consider not only the enemy's ability to injure me, but also my own ability to gain an advantage over the enemy.

  Du Mu

  Military, Mind, Enemy

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• Once, I was at a party...This was at a time when it seemed like I had everything. I was young. I was undefeated. I had money. I`d just moved into my own home. People at the party were laughing and having fun. And I missed my mother. I felt so lonely. I remember asking myself, `Why isn`t my mother here? Why are all these people around me? I don`t want these people around me.' I looked out the window and started crying.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Mother, Lonely, Fun

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• The feeling that "I am enough" does not mean that I have nothing to learn, nothing further to achieve, and nowhere to grow to. It means that I accept myself, that I am not on trial in my own eyes, that I value and respect myself. This is not an act of indulgence but of courage.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mean, Eye, Self

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost other-worldly haunting presence. For me, they were simply my own reality at that point in my life. What I was trying to reveal was my inner soul in all its fragile complexity. Without knowing it, I was trying to peel back the layers that shroud and bind us all as we struggle to reveal our own authentic selves.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Struggle, Reality

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• Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Selfish, Book

  Saint Augustine (2010). “The Confessions”, p.198, New City Press

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