Self Quotes - Page 32

• While it is democratically not permissible for an individual to own any information or publishing medium, all individuals have a natural right to self-expression by any means, even if such means were insane and meant to prove a person's insanity.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Mean, Expression, Insanity

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• Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death.
  Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story.

  N.D. Wilson

  Summer, Mother, Desire

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• Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts. Like the poet's image of a church bell that reveals its latent music only when struck, or a dragonfly that flames forth its beauty only in flight, so does the content of a human heart lie buried until action calls it forth. The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is and knowing that a thing is not.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Lying, Believe, Heart

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• Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.

  Joe Dempsie

  Consciousness, Performances, Self Consciousness

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

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• I was very unique as a child, dressed a certain way, acted a certain way, didnt fit in with everybody. So I immediately got picked on, especially around the age of 12 and 13, when you start going to junior high and start mingling with the older kids. To counteract that, strictly for self-defense, I wanted to get bigger.

  John Cena

  Children, Kids, Unique

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• No one ever judges their own self.

  James Wolk

  Judging

  "Q&A: James Wolk on the Brilliant Bob Benson". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. June 21, 2013.

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• I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic like a self-absorbed ice queen.

  Megan Fox

  Queens, Thinking, Ice Queen

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• Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.

  Megan Fox

  Struggle, Mean, Loathing

  "Megan's self harm" by Cosmo Team, www.cosmopolitan.com. September 17, 2009.

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• I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru.

  David Tennant

  Winning, Thinking, Doctors

  www.imdb.com.

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• To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, "My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?"

  Anna Kendrick

  Thinking, Useless Life, Cameras

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2011.

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  There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lying, Men, Noble Man

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• I learned how to believe in myself. Learned how to set goals, you know, self help books man. I just read every single one I can get a hold of, and I still do.

  Drew Carey

  Book, Believe, Men

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• No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end.

  Willie Aames

  Fighting, Might, Matter

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• Toddlers ask many questions, and so do school children - until about grade three. By that time, many of them have learned an unfortunate fact, that in school, it can be more important for self-protection to hide one's ignorance about a subject than to learn more about it, regardless of one's curiosity.

  Jan Hunt

  Children, School, Ignorance

  Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.115, New Society Publishers

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• Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

  Horace

  Conceited, Race

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• Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

  Horace

  Vanity, Glasses, Secret

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• Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sacrifice, Denial, Self Love

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• Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Order, Should, Stewards

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Powerful, Heart, Vanity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.144

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• To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Intellectual, Mind, Coats

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886). “Outre-mer and Drift-wood”

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• Love me, please, I love you; I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything ... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Giving Up, Love You, Commitment

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• The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.

  George Herbert

  Men, Snow, Old Man

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.326

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• True self-love and social are the same.

  Alexander Pope

  Self Love, Social, True Self

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 4 (1734) l. 396

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• I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

  Joan Cusack

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Celebrity Q+A: Joan Cusack". Interview with Patty A. Martinez, www.familycircle.com.

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• I actually went to film school, but I didnt like it. Im basically self-taught.

  Judah Friedlander

  School, Taught, Film

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