Self Quotes - Page 37

• And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.

  Maureen Dowd

  Jesus, Thinking, Government

  "Virtuous Bankers? Really!?!" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2009.

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• If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

  Christopher Paolini

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

  Bobby Seale

  Party, Black, Defense

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• In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example, without any professional credentials in mathematics; in this subject I am completely self-taught, and not very well taught.

  Noam Chomsky

  Done, Fields, Taught

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

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• Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Desire, Innocence

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• I think we all have a bunch of different people inside of us, and then for a particular role you bring a certain side of that self of yourself forward to sort of play, but it's always really dimensionalised.

  Vince Vaughn

  Thinking, Play, People

  Source: movieweb.com

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• We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Successful, Men, People

  "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.

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• People also like partnerships because they can identify with the drama of two people in partnership. They can feed off a partnership, and that keeps people entertained. Besides, if you have a successful partnership, it's self-sustaining.

  Mick Jagger

  Drama, Successful, Two

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• Divine love, agape, is self-sacrificing love, which sounds difficult, as it is, and not very attractive. If the best image we have of love is of a man who's been tortured and hung upon a cross to die an excruciating death, this is something that human beings find very, very hard to understand as love. But it is the highest Christian image of love.

  Kevin Hart

  Christian, Sacrifice, Love Is

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.

  Jack White

  Dream, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.

  Richard Meale

  Taught, Study, Composition

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2002.

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• I think if we can be totally nonviolent within our own self, because we are part of the web of life, we will restore cosmic harmony.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Web Of Life, Harmony

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN.com chat room, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

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• If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.

  Deepak Chopra

  Healing, Balance, World

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

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• My interest at the moment is to use my dreaming self (which I also access in shamanic journeying) to engage with the Earth. In my waking rational life I often forget about the Earth, or I get worried or confused by contradictory information. With my dreaming brain I can have access to powerful images of what is going on in the Earth, from day to day.

  Amy Hardie

  Dream, Powerful, Confused

  "The Edge of Dreaming". Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.

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• The hunger [to success] is the same, no matter what it is that you're doing. It's like an unquenchable thirst to learn more, or to feel like you could have done more, and to be brutally honest and self critical, which is very hard to do. It's easy, and human nature is to just blame somebody else. It's very, very hard to self assess.

  Kobe Bryant

  Done, Matter, Honest

  "Kobe Bryant Q&A: Future, fashion, legacy and Lamar Odom". Interview with Sam Amick, www.usatoday.com. February 26, 2015.

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• It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

  Cornel West

  Leader, Black, Affirmation

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.

  Cornel West

  Black, Church, Certain

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.

  Cornel West

  Community, Black, Together

  Interview with Itabari Njeri, articles.latimes.com. October 22, 1995.

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• One of the things that people sense is that you are not doing this for self-glorification, you are doing it for the sake of others. The Dalai Lama has been in exile for so many years, yet the Chinese are running scared of him.

  Desmond Tutu

  Running, Years, People

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• I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.

  Tony Robbins

  Thinking, Self Education, Best Things

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Machines, Schwarzenegger, Muscles

  "Arnold Schwarzenegger: Success and secrets". "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. September 30, 2012.

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• As a kid, I was a little self-conscious because I was so much taller than everyone. A bad habit of mine used to be slouching. Eventually, I realized my height was something I couldn't control, so I might as well accept it. I've certainly turned it into a positive, because without my height I probably wouldn't be as good of a tennis player. It's a gift, and I've made something of it.

  John Isner

  Kids, Player, Tennis

  Source: espn.go.com

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• If you take racism away from certain people - I mean, vitriolic racism as well as the sort of social racist - if you take that away, they may have to face something really terrible, misery, self-misery, and deep pain about who they are.

  Toni Morrison

  Pain, Mean, Racism

  "Toni Morrison On Human Bondage And A Post-Racial Age". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2008.

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• Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her way and perhaps even self-doubt because there aren't that many who've gone before you. And I think that the most powerful tool we can have is to be clear about our intent. To know what it is we want to do rather than going into institutions thinking that the institution is going to frame for us.

  Bell Hooks

  Powerful, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October, 2006.

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• The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.

  Bell Hooks

  Self Esteem, Reality, Healthy

  "The BK Nation INTERVIEW with bell hooks". Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. February 28, 2014.

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