Like Me Quotes - Page 29

• I don't want people to hate me. I basically do whatever I want. But one of the aspects of what I want is, I want people to like me!

  Robert Pattinson

  Hate, People, Want

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I'm a private person so wasn't the type of person who could talk to people and be like this is going on at home, I want this shirt, this girl don't like me, etc. I just rap about it!

  Kirko Bangz

  Girl, Rap, Home

  Source: urbanbridgez.com

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• I don't want my kids to be like me, I don't want my daughter to date a guy like me. You know, for a guy like me success is to take care of my children to take care of their life and make 'em cushioned. I don't want them to be around people like me. You know, success for me would be that they never have the opportunity of being in the presence of someone like me.

  Mike Tyson

  Daughter, Children, Kids

  "Mike Tyson Teaches Earl Sweatshirt a Thing or Two About the Glory of The Notebook". Interview with Alex Beggs, www.vanityfair.com. December 17, 2014.

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• I always had an idea for what I wanted to do in the future and throughout my career. This wasn't, like, me figuring out what to do after Idol. I've always known the steps in what I had to do to get where I was.

  Jessica Sanchez

  Idols, Careers, Ideas

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• Until kids decide, 'I am a miracle. I am unique. There is no one else exactly like me,' they can never draw the conclusion, 'Because I'm a miracle, I will never harm another person who's a miracle like me.' In this slippery world, they all need something to hang on to.

  Marva Collins

  Kids, Unique, Miracle

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• I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.

  Al Franken

  Dog, Smart, People

  "ABC's This Week Promotes Dem. Al Franken: 'Traded in Comedy for Politics'". Interview with Jeff Zeleny, www.newsbusters.org. May 4, 2014.

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• My mother would like me to start all interviews by stating that she and my father are perfectly normal. They are proud of me, and as perplexed as anyone by my novels.

  Lisa Gardner

  Mother, Father, Perfectly Normal

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• In other words, my literary agenda begins by acknowledging that America has transformed me. It does not end until I show how I (and the hundreds of thousands like me) have transformed America.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  America, Doe, Agendas

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• I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.

  Jill Tweedie

  Hate, Reading, Avid

  Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited

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• I love Marilyn Monroe. I think she was the coolest blonde. I think like me she just didn't care what anyone thinks. She's happy. She's smiling. I don't know, I just always thought she was so beautiful and she just seemed, like, magical.

  Paris Hilton

  Beautiful, Thinking, Blonde

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• Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Powerful, Growing Up

  Marco Rubio (2015). “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone”, p.56, Penguin

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• I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me.

  Shunroku Hata

  People, Records, Facts

  "Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939". Book by Alvin D. Coox, p. 1184, 1990.

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• I think it is important for someone like me to not run away from who I am but embrace it. LGBT people across the country need to know they have a friend in Congress.

  Mark Takano

  Running, Country, Thinking

  "The Challenges of Being a Gay Member of Congress" by Andrew Longhi, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2013.

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• one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them.

  Peggy McIntosh

  Race, White Privilege, Racism

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• People say nice things to me -- like that I ought to run for president -- which tells me that they like me. But I have my own deadline for how long I should be in Washington. I think you can get accustomed to red tape and many unfair things that go on in government. Once you stop getting angry about inefficiencies, waste, and injustice, you ought to get out. That's my time limit.

  Elizabeth Holtzman

  Running, Nice, Thinking

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• Every year, my family and I would go visit my moms family in Texas. We would drive from Chicago to Texas, and once we started to get towards San Antonio, everyone looked like me! It was such a great feeling. Everyone had the same brown skin that I did.

  Marisol Nichols

  Mom, Texas, Years

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• Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.

  Teddy Thompson

  Creativity, Thinking, Space

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• When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it's hard for me to embrace that, because it just doesn't feel like me.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  People, Feminine, Embrace

  Interview with Bridget Foley, www.wmagazine.com. March 1, 2007.

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• I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  People, Special, Wanted

  Interview with Bridget Foley, www.wmagazine.com. March 1, 2007.

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• I always show love to the local record stores because they actually listen to me... They know the songs on my cds. They look like me, straight out the hood. They know whats hot and what is on they shelf.

  Webbie

  Song, Cds, Hot

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• We live in a trans period. Contemporary issues of sexuality, for example - the exciting aspects of them - have to do with transgenderedness. And there's trans-nationality. There are people like me, for example. I mean, what am I? Am I Indian? Am I American? And I'm not alone in being between things.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Mean, Issues, People

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• I really wanted people to pay attention to me and like me. And the class clown thing, you know? There's a weird desperation to the class clown when you really investigate it. Why are they trying to be the clown so much? They're filling some kind of hole.

  Jack Black

  Class, People, Trying

  "Jack Black's dramatic turn". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

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• People can think what they want to think, I don't go after people. I think most people I talk to, like me, are very quiet and keep to themselves, they maintain their lives.

  Scott Baio

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Only in America, where someone like me could have the opportunity to seek the highest office the world has to offer. Not only can all of us achieve whatever dream we want to achieve because of the place where we live and the opportunities it gives us, but that we not only can do it together, but we have to do it together!

  Chris Christie

  Dream, Opportunity, America

  "Exclusive: Chris Christie explains why he is running for president on "Hannity". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 30, 2015.

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• I have to be ahead of myself so I don't just fit into the realm of everybody who sounds like me.

  Kid Cudi

  Sound, Fit, Realms

  "Kid Cudi Talks Debut Album, Band of Horses and Ratatat Collaborations". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 13, 2009.

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