My Own Quotes - Page 33

• I'm very uncomfortable in my own skin.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Skins, Uncomfortable

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• I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!

  B. F. Skinner

  Selfish, Damn You, Ideas

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• In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence
  — as not-bound to life.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Order, Risk, Facts

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel Estella Barnes (1992). “Being and Nothingness”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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• I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Selfish, Shopping, Mind

  "My life in shopping". Interview with Sophie Kinsella, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2007.

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• I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Father, Space, House

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• I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.

  Heidi Klum

  Book, Clothes, Glue

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• I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way/ And say I've been getting along/ For long before you came into the play.

  Fiona Apple

  Moving, Mean, Play

  Song: Extraordinary Machine, Album: Extraordinary Machine, 2005

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• I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Teenage, Writing, Years

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• I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter

  Kenzo Tange

  Thinking, Design, Matter

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• I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Fiction, Tedium, Company

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (2002). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.294, Grove Press

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• I made my own house be my gallows.

  Dante Alighieri

  House, Gallows, Made

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• It's really hard to take that step-not only do I believe in something, I believe in it enough that I'm willing to set my own life on fire and burn it to the ground.

  Edward Snowden

  Believe, Fire, Steps

  www.wired.com.

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• Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

  Pope Francis

  Dignity, Humans, Human Beings

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• And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Understanding, Literature, Loyal

  Margaret Cavendish (2002). “Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions”, p.205, Broadview Press

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• I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Shows, Ifs

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• Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown . . . I’ve tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Color, People

  sylvia plath (1971). “the bell jar”

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• When I saw photographs of children murdered by the Fascist, I felt furious pity. When the supporters of Franco talked of Red atrocities, I merely felt indignant that people should tell such lies. In the first case I saw corpses, in the second only words. . . I gradually acquired a certain horror of the way in which my own mind worked. It was clear to me that unless I cared about every murdered child impartially, I did not really care about children being murdered at all.

  Stephen Spender

  Children, Lying, People

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• New York is what Paris was in the twenties. . . the center of the art world. And we want to be in the center. It's the greatest place on earth. . . I've got a lot of friends here and I even brought my own cash.

  John Lennon

  Art, New York, Paris

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• When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

  Janelle Monae

  Artist, Makeup, Hair

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• What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.

  Max Stirner

  Long

  Max Stirner (1982). “The Ego and Its Own”, p.251, Rebel Press

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• I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.

  Tim Cook

  Struggle, Gay, Sacrifice

  "Tim Cook Speaks Up" by Tim Cook, www.bloomberg.com. October 30, 2014.

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• I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no one think of that?

  Egon Schiele

  Thinking, Doe, Breathe

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• I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Teaching, Giving

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• My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.

  Herbert Hoover

  Ambition, Able, Boyhood

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• I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Blood, Looks, Done

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