My Own Quotes - Page 34

• Today, I count myself blessed to have become a photographer. To be able to articulate the experiences of the voiceless, to bring their identity to the forefront, gives meaning and purpose to my own life.

  G.M.B. Akash

  Blessed, Giving, Identity

  G. M. B. Akash, Reena Abraham (2006). “First Light: The Photography of G.M.B. Akash”

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• So I decided to start a church, for three reasons. First, I hated going to church and wanted one I liked, so I thought I would just start my own. Second, God had spoken to me in one of those weird charismatic moments and told me to start a church. Third, I am scared of God and try to do what he says.

  Mark Driscoll

  Church, Trying, Three

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• Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

  Francis Chan

  Church, Spirit, Holy

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• You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in her entire wardrobe. But over my own dead body will I spend my own time and money turning you into a clone of some brain-dead waste of skin who thinks the pinnacle of achievement is selling her wedding shots to a magazine.

  Tana French

  Thinking, Achievement, Brain

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• I started my own foundation. If you aren't familiar with it, it's called 'Febreezing the homeless.' Who would you rather give money to: a man that smells 4like liquiid garbage, or ocean breeze?

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Ocean, Men

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• If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being always protected made me more fearful, and I would later dip cautiously into the outside world, never allowing myself to be submerged completely, and always jerking back into the familiarity of my own life when my senses were overwhelmed. For years I would stand with a foot in each sphere, drawn to the exotic universe that lay on the other side of the portal, wrenched back by the warnings that sounded like alarm bells in my mind.

  Deborah Feldman

  Fear, Years, Feet

  Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

  Robin Hobb

  Fear, World, Kind

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.162, Spectra

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• O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes to me in darkness and that works things I cannot see. Teach me to be happy that I can depend on You. To depend on You should be enough for an eternity of joy. To depend on You by itself ought to be infinitely greater than any joy which my own intellectual appetite could desire.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Joy, Grace

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• I don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own bubble. But I'm really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.

  Jason Mraz

  Journey, Weakness, World

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• I really want to get into designing my own business suit. I've designed a couple suits for myself that I've worn in the past, and I have a good idea of what I want and need to use.

  Ryan Lochte

  Couple, Past, Ideas

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• Anything I do, I do with 110 percent. Right now, my biggest goal is the 2016 Olympics. My main focus is that. But after the sport of swimming-when it's all said and done-I want to get involved in fashion. I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.

  Ryan Lochte

  Sports, Fashion, Swimming

  "Hot Topic: Ryan Lochte" by Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. April 5, 2013.

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• I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

  Mark McGwire

  Sports, Thinking, Records

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes I think God is trying to test me, both now and in the future. I'll have to become a good person on my own, without anyone to serve as a model or advise me, but it'll make me stronger in the end.

  Anne Frank

  Thinking, Trying, Stronger

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.145, Penguin UK

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• Out of my own great woe I make my little songs.

  Heinrich Heine

  Song, Littles, Woe

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• By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.

  Freddie Mercury

  Bottles, Way, Coke

  New Musical Express Interview, www.queenarchives.com. November 2, 1974.

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• I just love crafting and shaping sounds... I like to breathe my own life into these sounds

  Imogen Heap

  Sound, Breathe, My Own Life

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• I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope
  and product of my own strength.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fashion, Sorrow, Aliens

  "Gertrude". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 4, 1910.

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• My own ongoing research among secular Americans-as well as that of a handful of other social scientists who have only recently turned their gaze on secular culture-confirms that nonreligious family life is replete with its own sustaining moral values and enriching ethical precepts.

  Phil Zuckerman

  Ongoing, Research, Culture

  "Do Godless Kids Turn Out All Right?" by Steve Mazie, bigthink.com.

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• When I see my own people going through the tough times, it's a wake-up call. I hope my influence can impact someone else's decision to get out here and vote.

  Bow Wow

  Impact, People, Decision

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• It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.

  Earl Campbell

  House, Cooking, Pits

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• I studied fashion at the London College of Fashion. I get involved in it as part of my own styling, so if I wasn't a pop star maybe a fashion buyer or a stylist.

  Rachel Stevens

  Fashion, Stars, College

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• I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.

  Rachel Stevens

  Reflection, Style, Dresses

  "Rachel Stevens...Clubbing Solo & Sexy". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

  Rachel Stevens

  Love Is, Careers, Creative

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• No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect to dictate to me. He may censure me freely and without reserve; but he should remember that I am to act by my deliberation and not his. I ought to exercise my talents for the benefit of others; but that exercise must be the fruit of my own conviction; no man must attempt to press me into the service.

  William Godwin

  Exercise, Men, Atheism

  William Godwin, Kay Codell Carter (1971). “Enquiry concerning political justice: with selections from Godwin's other writings”, Clarendon Press

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• I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

  Thomas Browne

  Community, Sake, Study

  Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas CHAPMAN (of Exeter College, Oxford.) (1831). “Religio Medici”, p.118

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