Self Sufficient Quotes - Page 3

• I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Self, Involved, Sufficient

  "Shirley MacLaine is angelic in ‘Heavenly’ Hallmark TV movie". Interview with Lynn Elber, www.apnews.com. November 22, 2016.

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• Give us some separate territory in this country where our people can go and do something for ourselves. And provide us with everything that we need to keep that new territory going, until we are self-sufficient.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Self, People

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• Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Strong, Self, Feels

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• In fact, the left can't survive with independently self-sufficient, self-reliant people. They aren't needed if that ever happens, or within groups of people like that. So they have to assume that people are mind-numbed robots.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Self, People, Mind

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The female psyche is inherently self-sufficient, because female sexuality is inherently self-sufficient. I think women are maybe more comfortable, or women are able to find physical beauty in each other that doesn't terrify them.

  Laura Marling

  Thinking, Self, Female

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I started acting at seven years old. It took me 20 years to understand that if I was going to make my dreams a reality, I had to take the reigns. I had to learn something about being productive and being self what's the word I'm looking for? Self-sufficient, but I had to be productive at all costs and I had to make product.

  Vin Diesel

  Dream, Reality, Self

  Source: ellisbenus.com

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• There is part of me that longs to have the back-to-the-earth life - make my own bread, grow my own wheat, just be really self-sufficient - but I am not, at the moment, willing to give up the luxury of modern life, and amazing schools for my kids, and things that I've come to rely on that are parts of society.

  Lauren Groff

  Giving Up, School, Kids

  "Bit And Peace: Lauren Groff’s Arcadia". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 8, 2012.

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• I went from being married to living on my own in L.A., to having a new boyfriend and just being totally self-sufficient and super independent. It's awesome. I love it!

  Lindsey Vonn

  Independent, Self, Just Being

  "Lindsey Vonn: Life's on the Upswing and 'I Love It'". Interview with Elizabeth Leonard, people.com. August 29, 2013.

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• We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost.

  Thomas Merton

  Self, Needs, Firsts

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.248, Shambhala Publications

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• The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Self

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• Russia sees itself as a country that is self-sufficient.

  Sergei Ivanov

  Country, Russia, Self

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered...Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himself

  Margaret Heffernan

  Selfish, Mean, Men

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• But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Pride, Self, Pausing

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• People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

  Eric Hoffer

  Responsibility, Insecure, Self

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children - and you've got to give them something else. And they did.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Men, Self

  "Ruminator" Magazine, August/September 2005.

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• From 16 to 21 when I was self sufficient and working in factories. I packed batteries, boxes, and make-up with heroin addicts. I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet.

  Jay Kay

  Self, Two, Feet

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Mirror.co.uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. January 27, 2012.

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• When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

  J. C. Chandor

  Islands, Self, Littles

  "Rocking the Boat". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2013.

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• China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Ancient, Bloodshed, China

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• Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.

  Joseph Stowell

  Self, Deceit, Sufficient

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• I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn’t weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Thinking, Self, Long

  "When Stars Collide". www.out.com. January 18, 2012.

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• I am a complete, mature, self-sufficient being.

  Frederick Winslow Taylor

  Self, Mature, Sufficient

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• I wanted to be self-sufficient, I wanted to take care of myself, and I wanted to learn. I wanted to travel, I wanted to see the world and have my eyes opened. I wanted to be consistently challenged, and I knew I needed to be creative in some way. When I got my job in a bar and I could pay for my tuition and go on auditions and sometimes get jobs that I loved and pay my rent, I knew that I would be all right. That's when my dreams came true, long before the telephone rang and someone said, 'Come and meet Tom Cruise'".

  Renee Zellweger

  Dream, Jobs, Eye

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

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• As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's necessary for a good life on our own, because we need other people.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Good Life, Self, People

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I like women who are self-sufficient.

  Ty Pennington

  Self, Sufficient

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• I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

  Imran Khan

  Self, Tree, Cows

  "The path of Khan" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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