My Own Quotes - Page 23

• Last night I learned how to be a lover of God. To live in this world and call nothing my own.

  Rumi

  Night, World, Lasts

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• Next time I'll be braver, I'll be my own savior, Standing on my own two feet.

  Adele

  Two, Feet, Next

  Song: Turning Tables, Album: 21, 2011

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• I just can't sit back and wallow, In my own sorrow, but I know one fact: I'll be one tough act to follow.

  Eminem

  Sorrow, Facts, Tough

  Song: Beautiful, Album: Relapse, 2009

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• Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.

  Alex Trebek

  Determination, Believe, Behave

  "What I've Learned: Alex Trebek". Esquire, March 2003.

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• Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Garden, Heritage

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.114, Rutgers University Press

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• Today I detach from other people's dramas. I love them and pray for them. I am a role model of peace for them. But I no longer rescue them, or put my own needs last. It is my right to be happy and to help others as I feel lovingly guided instead from guilt or obligation. I respect my feelings and expect others to do so too. And so it is!

  Doreen Virtue

  Drama, Helping Others, Role Models

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Aug 15, 2012

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• Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England, and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African.

  Nelson Mandela

  England And America, Roots, Imagination

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.190, Hachette UK

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• As a kid, I wanted to be a boy because I equated that with strength. There's a problem with that. It's only growing into my own womanhood that I realize how warped that is that I was attributing strength to male qualities.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Kids, Boys, Quality

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• I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

  Matthew Modine

  Vaccines, Path, Rich

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• I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

  Donald Miller

  Listening, Stories, Life Story

  Twitter post from Nov 19, 2015

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• I look at my own body
  With eyes no longer blind-
  And I see that my own hands can make
  The world that's in my mind.

  Langston Hughes

  Eye, Hands, Mind

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• It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.

  Nicole Kidman

  Running, Jobs, Roles

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Dec 24, 2013

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• My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have to have too much technique for it. I've developed the parts of my technique that are useful to me. I'll never be a very fast guitar player. I don't really know what to say about my style. There's always a melodic intent in there.

  David Gilmour

  Player, Guitar, Style

  Sounds: Guitar Heroes magazine, May 1983.

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• I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Cheer, Book, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spokes, My Thoughts, Behinds

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.168, Penguin

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• But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.

  Laurence Housman

  Appreciation, Play, Feet

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• Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sandwich... My mother's is the best. I've tried many times to make these sandwiches on my own, but it's never the same.

  Andy Roddick

  Mother, Cheese Sandwiches, Cheesy

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• For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids - it's their favorite dinner.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Kids, Cheesy, Meat

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• The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.

  Paula Cole

  Music, Destiny, Rivers

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• I just wanted a style of music all my own.

  Bill Monroe

  Music, Style, Wanted

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• This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that neither This Year nor Next Year am I to have the ability and wisdom to light the lamp on my own. Although one branch of childhood is in this fashion lopped for all time, the rest of it still inhabits the body of a child which occupies itself in childish matters.

  Hal Porter

  Fashion, Art, Children

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• I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

  Michael Leunig

  Art, Children, Mind

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• The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Passion, People

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• Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Thinking, May

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• I set my own rhythm, and I do believe it was usually a little faster than most other people's.

  Ray Charles

  People, Littles, Faster

  "Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story".

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