My Own Quotes - Page 37

• And it makes you think. Even things that have been the same for years and years can change. Maybe I can change. I can bring my own wall down, and let people in.

  Rae Earl

  Wall, Thinking, Years

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• I find myself frequently placed where I
  dare give neither assent nor dissent to propositions that are submitted to me;
  for there is danger that any words I may speak shall be reported as something
  that the Lord has given me. It is not always safe for me to express my own
  judgment; for sometimes when someone wishes to carry out his own purpose,
  he will regard any favorable word I may speak as special light from the Lord

  Ellen G. White

  Light, Giving, Special

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• I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

  Nate Berkus

  Light, Construction, Fixture

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• For me, I was raped in my own dorm bed. Since then, it has basically become fraught for me, and I feel like I've carried the weight of what happened there with me everywhere since then.

  Emma Sulkowicz

  Bed, Weight, Dorms

  "Columbia University Student Will Drag Her Mattress Around Campus Until Her Rapist Is Gone" by Sarah Barness, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2014.

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• I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

  Anita Baker

  Song, Writing, Albums

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• Though man or angel judge my life and read it like an open scroll, And weigh my heart, I have judge more just than any—my own soul.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Heart, Angel, Men

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• I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.

  Penn Jillette

  War, Party, Self

  Penn Jillette (2012). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophy, Light, Doubt

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “The indispensable Rousseau”, Quartet Books (UK)

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• Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.

  Dennis Flanagan

  Failure, Science, Feelings

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• I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

  Dani Shapiro

  Running, Haunting, Theme

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• My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Flesh, Misery

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• I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Art, People, Different

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• At first I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice I guess.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Voice, Trying, Sound

  Interview with Kieran Yates, www.dazeddigital.com. October 25, 2013.

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• I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

  Tom T. Hall

  Catholic, Baptists, Quarters

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• I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me.

  Henry Flagler

  Tyrants

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• Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I have to run every single time. There's a little bit of OCD involved, but I love it.

  Nate Ruess

  Running, Central Park, Wake Up

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• I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

  Sarah Fielding

  Children, Suffering Of Others, Mind

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• Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors.

  Luc Montagnier

  Interesting, Population, Looks

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• My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

  Ariel Gore

  Writing, Habit, Given

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• I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

  Brad Grey

  Style, Way, Strategy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.

  Brad Grey

  Running, Race, Sweat

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.

  Jennie Finch

  Kids, Names, Bats

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• Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.

  Jan Smuts

  Soul, Way, Spirit

  "Holism and Evolution". Book by Jan Smuts, 1926.

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• If I wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, I must not fix my mind on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to me... If I wish to extricate myself from a dangerous position, I must consider not only the enemy's ability to injure me, but also my own ability to gain an advantage over the enemy.

  Du Mu

  Military, Mind, Enemy

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• My life is not my own business.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Life Is, Interdependence, Own Business

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