My Own Quotes - Page 19

• Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Giving, Grace, Weakness

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• As my awareness increases, my control over my own being increases.

  William Schutz

  Awareness, Increase, Self Awareness

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• I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved in order to stand up for my own values and beliefs. My candidacy is based on my record, and for that matter, my entire life.

  Ronald Reagan

  Order, Citizens, Records

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books

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• He needs to be corrected, if you don't mind me saying so. He needs a good talking-to, and perhaps a bit more. My own girls, sir, didn't care for the Overlook at first. One of them actually stole a pack of my matches and tried to burn it down. I corrected them. I corrected them most harshly. And when my wife tried to stop me from doing my duty, I corrected her.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Talking, Wife

  Stephen King (2008). “The Shining”, p.443, Anchor

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• There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

  Joan Chen

  Mother, Thinking, Play

  "Joan Chen — Saving Face". Groucho Reviews Interview, grouchoreviews.com. March 11, 2005.

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• I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Math, Years, Mind

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• I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.

  Christian Bale

  Attitude, Dad, Father

  "New Again: Christian Bale". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

  George Grosz

  Fighting, Games, Self

  George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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• God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives. If I want to heal the ache and loneliness in my own life, one of the things I need to do is get away, alone with God. . . . In the silence God will speak to you most powerfully. Too often his words to us get muffled, lost, or covered by the crowd of many noises both inside and outside of us. We must have a quiet heart in order to hear God's distinctive message to us.

  Tim Hansel

  God, Loneliness, Heart

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• Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Looks, Excess

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 9, 1595.

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• From time to time, like many other players, I glance through my own games of earlier years, and return to positions and variations which have gone out of practice. I attempt to restore them, to find new ideas and plans.

  Efim Geller

  Player, Years, Practice

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• When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother's car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to the car one night at dinner, it was a major rite of passage for him and my mother. Their perception of me had changed and was formally acknowledged. For me the occasion meant a private sanction to do in public what I had already been doing in secret.

  Robert Fulghum

  Mother, Father, Teaching

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• Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.

  Derek Parfit

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Derek Parfit, Samuel Scheffler (2013). “On What Matters: Volume One”, p.40, Oxford University Press

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• If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London; for life in the country is the only state which has always completely satisfied me, and I had never been allowed to gratify it, even for a few weeks at a time. Now I was to know the joys of six or seven months a year among fields and woods of my own, and the childish ecstasy of that first spring outing at Mamaroneck swept away all restlessness in the deep joy of communion with the earth.

  Edith Wharton

  Country, Spring, Years

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• I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks' and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Girl, Character, Thinking

  "Cozy Up to The Class' Queen of Snark!". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. October 7, 2006.

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• I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Book, Enjoy, Adapting

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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• I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

  Jane Birkin

  Sad, Home, Mirrors

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• I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.

  Josh Ryan Evans

  Growing Up, Home, Character

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

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• I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.

  Charlie Watts

  Change, Use, Rooms

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

  Rhona Mitra

  Imagination, Rooms, Hospitality

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• I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughing, Grace, Half

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.31, Vintage

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• I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

  Charles Kuralt

  Desire, Narcissism, Knows

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• I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Next Day, Care

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• For me and Michelle, this visit has therefore held special meaning. Throughout my life, including my work as a young man on behalf of the urban poor, I have always found inspiration in the life of Gandhiji and in his simple and profound lesson to be the change we seek in the world. And just as he summoned Indians to seek their destiny, he influenced champions of equality in my own country, including a young Martin Luther King

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Country, Kings

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• I have my own dance and production companies, and acting is my creative outlet. It's what I'm passionate about. I've actually created a lifestyle where I could act for free. I could get a job to pay the bills and act on the weekends to make me smile.

  Brian J. White

  Jobs, Weekend, Creative

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