Like Me Quotes - Page 34

• Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

  Irvine Welsh

  Jobs, Class, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This country right now owes $19 trillion. And they need somebody like me to straighten out that mess.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Needs, Mess

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The rush of creating sounds and mixing sounds is always an interesting challenge, especially for someone like me, who doesn't know about sound.

  Hank Williams III

  Creating, Interesting, Challenges

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• I'd like to get shot into space. I'd like to potentially visit the moon. I don't know if I can do that in the next couple years, but I spent some time at the jet propulsion lab, looking out at the future of when a guy like me can do a little space travel.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Couple, Moon, Years

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• I always love to put hidden messages in my music videos, because I know there are people like me who, when they watch something, are really active, involved participants. I'm not usually a really passive listener or observer. So I do put those messages in there for people who spend a great deal of time [looking for them].

  Jared Leto

  People, Messages, Watches

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• I tried to reach the combatants with my music. I tried to turn my anger into something positive. Myself, and others like me, just tried to keep rock and roll alive.

  Eric Burdon

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Alive

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• I think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there's also that fear, 'Oh, I don't want to be like my father,' or, 'I hope my kid doesn't turn out like me.' You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.

  Ben Affleck

  Dad, Father, Kids

  "Ben Affleck: I quit drinking to be good husband". Mirror interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2008.

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• He [Barack Obama] talked about a crisises and he was blaming the Republicans on this crisises. It's like me blaming my wife for my drinking. I don't se how this is the Republicans fault.

  Barack Obama

  Drinking, Wife, Faults

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think that is a really good message, especially for young girls to hear. The fact that someone like me from the western suburbs of Sydney could become an actress in movies who didn't look like a regular actress, and that I can make it I think gives a lot of hope to other girls who are really creative and don't necessarily follow the standard of what some people consider beauty to be.

  Rebel Wilson

  Girl, Thinking, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I look in the eyes and I see the heart. As long as it's a human story. I would like to turn on my television and see African American, Hispanic, Asian as well as Caucasian. And I think there are probably more people like me.

  Angela Bassett

  Heart, Eye, Thinking

  "'The Rosa Parks Story': Angela Bassett Interview". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• I deal with my guests the same. I just love them. I deal with the issue as it is. There's no issue that can't be overcome. I don't tolerate disrespect of themselves or of me. And dishonesty. Those are two things that upset me. Don't tell me you said something or did something and you didn't. I'm very clear. I warn them early. There always comes a moment when you don't like me!

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Two, Issues, Disrespect

  "Iyanla Vanzant Interview for Fourth Season of ‘Iyanla: Fix My Life’ Returning Sept. 6". Interview with Rodney Ho, radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com. September 06, 2014.

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• All over the world, I do business. I make great deals. I've made hundreds of millions of dollars against China. All over the world I make money and I build great things. Who's going to build a wall like me on the southern border? I built a great company.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Southern, Borders

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Socially, hip-hop has done more for racial camaraderie in this country than any one thing. 'Cause guys like me, my kids - everyone under 45 either grew up loving hip-hop or hating hip-hop, but everyone under 45 grew up very aware of hip-hop. So when you're a white kid and you're listening to this music and you're being exposed to it every day on MTV, black people become less frightening. This is just a reality. What hip-hop has done bringing people together is enormous.

  Michael Rapaport

  Country, Hate, Kids

  "Actor Michael Rapaport’s Rap Quest". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. July 01, 2011.

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• I was so paranoid that my friends wouldn't like me. I went to a very small school where the consequences of bullying were very real. You couldn't just push some nameless face in the hallway because everybody knew each other's families, so there wasn't the obligatory psychotic jackass that tortured everybody.

  Kristen Bell

  Bullying, Real, School

  "Kristen Bell Interview YOU AGAIN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 21, 2010.

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• OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

  Jack Nicholson

  Directors, Made

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• I think girls who looked like me or were from the poorer area where I'm from in Australia, like you don't think "Oh, I'm going to be a movie star." You just didn't think that would happen to girls like me where I'm from.

  Rebel Wilson

  Girl, Stars, Thinking

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.

  Gina Prince-Bythewood

  College, White, Confusion

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My favorite time of year is October, Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I know that watching horror movies was such a special thing to me as a child and my only dream is that I get to make it feel like Halloween all year round for other kids, for other weirdos like me.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Dream, Children, Halloween

  "Fantasia 2014: A Gothic Interview With Matthew Gray Gubler". Interview with Shawn Loeffler, www.yellmagazine.com. August 6, 2014.

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• There's a lot of people out there that's starting to sound like me so I guess I'm doing something right.

  Kirko Bangz

  People, Sound, Starting

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• Relatively, there are many scientists who believe in God. And in Oxford, where I am the Professor, there are more professors like me, who believe in God, than you think. There are not dozens of them, but they are there, and in Cambridge too, and elsewhere. We are not in a tiny minority.

  John Lennox

  Believe, Thinking, Oxford

  Source: www.christiantelegraph.com

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• Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Hinduism, Untouchability

  Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi (1932). “The Epic Fast”

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• A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Men, Earthquakes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “Volume of prefaces”

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• Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Triumph

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• When people listen to people like me, those of us who have a platform, we have to say things that speak truth. We have to empower, inspire, build, and launch the next generation of world solutions that will positively contribute to our economic, political and social fabric and - hopefully - improve the entire nation and the world.

  Farrah Gray

  People, Empowering, Political

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• I tell people that I'm not necessarily any good, it's just that there is nobody like me. I just promise you will not be bored.

  Andy Andrews

  People, Bored, Promise

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Modern Day Will Rogers Details His Latest Novel, 'The Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. November 19, 2013.

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