Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Me Quotes from famous persons: Michael Jordan, Cicely Tyson, Bill Dana, Willie Nelson, Alice Walker. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Me Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it’s time for me to move away from the game.
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I am overwhelmed by the love showered on me by my fans.
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Is it weird in here, or is it just me?
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For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.
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People want to call me racist for doing the Bon Qui Qui character, and I’m like, ‘Look, Bon Qui Qui is a representation of a hood chick. That’s it.’ There are lots of hood chicks out there: some are black, some are Mexican, some are Salvadorian, and some are white.
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I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.
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I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me.
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The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
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The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will.
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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
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Somebody called me a homophobe. I’m not homophobic.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone’s spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that’s beautiful to me.
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Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
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As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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I’m just here for good times, man. I want people to have the best time ever. Especially if they’re around me.
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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
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Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
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No one is the same, and we all have different life experiences. It’s not my place to judge them or for them to judge me. We should all be accountable for our own lives.
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For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
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A lot of people would say ‘sexy’ is about the body. But to me, ‘sexy’ is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.
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I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
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I’ve been told that having an Instagram account will help me book more roles, get more endorsement deals. It makes you more of a brand. But I’m not interested. I want to build my fan base through movies and movies alone.
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Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don’t put it on a platform. I don’t campaign about it. It’s just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being – my wife, Sheryl – which I was never able to do before.
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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
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To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it’s gotten me a pretty cool life.
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I love Australia; it was a really, really nice experience for me. It’s such a beautiful place. The people are beautiful – like, really beautiful – and they are beautiful in terms of their personalities. It’s a great place to be. It’s like you are in a little bit of a dream world.
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As I was looking around, to me, what was happening in the blockchain and crypto world was a movement.
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Anyone is free to judge me, but they weren’t there in my tough times.
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The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we’re going to win.
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I don’t care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
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No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.
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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
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The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
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I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
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I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
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God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don’t know what I’d do without them.
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What keeps me going is goals.
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There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a young woman at a lecture I was giving – she came from Liberty University, which is a ludicrous religious institution. She said, ‘What if you are wrong?’ and I answered that rather briefly, and that’s gone viral.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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Dying is easy, it’s living that scares me to death.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that’s fine.
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For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
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Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
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I can’t help feeling that I am not a very important person, and being treated like one gives me strange feelings.
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I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
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To me, there’s no great chef without a great team.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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I think the biggest misconception about me is people really don’t know who I really am. They see the party side of me, they see the crazy side of me. But I also have a laid-back side. You know, I’m chill, down to earth. If you want to grab a cup of coffee and just talk about life, I can do that.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down – but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let’s all have another round.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
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For me, the most important consideration is to choose attire that is functional, but looks stylish too. That means going for colors that are understated and use smart fabrics.
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I gotta stay in that light where people will see me and hear me. And not be scared of me, you know?
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My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.
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Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
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There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone’s spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that’s beautiful to me.
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If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.
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I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that’s why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Resting for me is fitness training.
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I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was ‘Help me.’ Sometimes a prayer was ‘Thank you.’ What I’ve discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.
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The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it’s a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.
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As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.
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I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
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I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
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My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly too.
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Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
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Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.
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First and foremost, it’s my mom and dad who gave me the foundation, the belief in me that I could do anything.
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I’m learning to accept myself. I’m still in the process of learning to love who I am. And it’s been really refreshing and really nice to be able to do that and be okay. I think my fans have brought that out in me.
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I was raised in the Catholic Church, and for me, the thought in the Bible and Christianity, and the spirit within that, is one of the guiding principles in my life.
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So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.
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For me, honestly, it’s not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It’s about what I’ve got to do and how I can contribute to the team.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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If you behind me, I’m not going to look back and try and figure out what you’re doing behind me.
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My people are my people. They love me and I love them. I would not be here without them.
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Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.
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Quality is everything to me, and I perfect everything I do.
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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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You will not tell me that you accept me. You will not tell me that you tolerate me. That is not your power. I take that from you. You will respect me for who I am.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.
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My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
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God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
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Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.
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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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Trust me, you can’t change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It’s impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.
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What was freely given to me, I freely give.
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You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.
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Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
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The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what’s happening up there.
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Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It’s the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, ‘This is me, and I’m interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.’
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
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My parents couldn’t give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I’ve definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad.
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My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
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Things never go the way you expect them to. That’s both the joy and frustration in life. I’m finding as I get older that I don’t mind, though. It’s the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don’t see coming.
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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Let me show you how it’s done… Loser!
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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I don’t have to be what you want me to be.
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For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.
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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
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Include me out.
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It’s always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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It keeps me humble just to know exactly where I came from and all the hard work I had to put in to be here. It feels good to reminisce about the past.
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To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.
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My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I’m too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn’t know my story. Because if they did, they’d know that anything is possible.
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I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
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Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.
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I don’t set out to win awards. I don’t think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it’s an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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My mom and dad did something special when they made me.
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If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
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My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.
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Everything for me is either a learn or a win. I just keep moving forward, and that’s about it, honestly.
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I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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I have two hands: one for me, one for other people.
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High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I’ll take with me the rest of my life.
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I’ve been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.
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I think it’s difficult to say what exactly made me become a successful DJ. It depends on so many different things. If I were given an award, I would thank my family, friends, Tiesto and the great team behind me for all their support and hard work. Without them, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
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I’m like a ‘comeback kid‘ – you can’t keep me down for long!
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Smoking calms me down. It’s enjoyable. I don’t want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
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I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
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I’m a fighter. I’m a survivor, and I’ll get through anything people can throw at me.
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I said to the almond tree, ‘Friend, speak to me of God,’ and the almond tree blossomed.
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There’s a drive in me that won’t allow me to do certain things that are easy.
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Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
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Everyone has different paths. I’ve been lucky to have a good support system – my family, friends and colleagues to keep me grounded and humble and to keep working hard. I never give up.
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Allah says in the Qur’an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It’s who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque – and I’m a basketball player with money and prestige – if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He’s better than me. It’s about knowledge.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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I’d rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
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I schedule ‘me’ time because, just like everyone else, I need to unwind. I try to remember to take it easy and breathe.
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I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
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For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
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People who have never dealt with depression think it’s just being sad or being in a bad mood. That’s not what depression is for me; it’s falling into a state of grayness and numbness.
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To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
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I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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The artist in me cries out for design.
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I detest jokes – when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn’t know it’s funny or doesn’t treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it’s a sort of rage against society.
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For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
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It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
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I’m just not into trying to convince people like me. I always say to myself, ‘It is what it is.’ I walk into a situation knowing that people are either going to love me or they’re not, and that’s OK. I’m just going to be me. You can’t be everything to everyone.
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Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
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Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.
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The football field was a place where I could express myself and just be me. Play the game as well as you can and that’s what you’re judged on. Not the colour of your skin, or your beliefs, or the conversation you have around racism.
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Eating words has never given me indigestion.
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Let me tell you something – being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
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Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
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Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
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Give me love and work – these two only.
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Reflecting on where I came from helps me to appreciate and balance what I have now.
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So many times, people told me I can’t do this or can’t do that. My nature is that I don’t listen very well. I’m very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don’t let anything stand in my way.
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The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
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Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive.
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I am someone who can’t hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don’t carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that’s the only way to be happy and peaceful.
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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
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Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda… and woke up with me.
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I’m emotionally in tune with my feelings and what people mean to me, and I have no trouble saying it and relating to it.
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My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.
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I’m not going to disrespect you, don’t disrespect me.
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Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.
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I’ve made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.
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Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
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What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.
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For me, growing up felt like a roller coaster ride at times, but looking back, I don’t think that it was such a bad thing. It was all part of the excitement of being young.
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Each day has a story to – deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.
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I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
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Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.
439
Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
440
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
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Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.
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Every moment is memorable to me.
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I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.
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Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
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I’d like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.
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Football’s a part of me. If I’m not playing, then I’m not me.
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For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you’ll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you’ll have a bad day where you’re really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, ‘Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?’
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I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.
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Seeing my friends succeed, find love, or just feeling content makes me feel unconditionally happy.
461
Everything I do references something that influenced me.
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Another fine mess you’ve gotten me into.
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If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
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I’ve always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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If you didn’t want to believe in me, that’s OK, because I’ll make a believer out of you.
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If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
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When I look out at the people and they look at me and they’re smiling, then I know that I’m loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
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Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
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I’d rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
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Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it.’
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Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows.
487
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
488
Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you’d bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I’d be the talk of the day.
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I am going to stop calling you a white man and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
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Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‘How to Build a Boat.’
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Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
497
When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.
498
School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.
499
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
500
You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
501
I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.
502
Everything happening around me is very random. I am enjoying the phase, as the journey is far more enjoyable than the destination.
503
I’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
504
Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.
505
I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.
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When I’m in the starting gate, it’s just me and the hill.
509
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
510
Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?
511
I enjoy an evening stroll. It helps me to reflect and eases stress.
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You can knock me down, but I get up twice as strong.
514
Let me tell you something: I’m a simple person who lives a simple life.
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Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
517
If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever.
518
Drawing is the only thing I’ve found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it’s a struggle because I’m pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.
519
To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
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The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Whatever life throws at me I’ll take it and be grateful for it as well.
526
Being real is what keeps me humble. It doesn’t matter how much money I make or how much I accomplish. What’s critical is staying real to myself and keeping my feet on the ground. That’s what helps keep me going.
527
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.
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Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
534
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
535
I really love my hometown. I carry that with me.
536
I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That’s like a free compliment and you don’t even gotta be smart to notice it.
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The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.
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I may be crazy, but that don’t make me wrong.
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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
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I don’t let anyone’s insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that’s all that matters to me.
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Positive energy and attitude is sexy to me.
547
God has entrusted me with myself.
548
The workshop to me always means great atmosphere, working, smell of wood, dust and, at the end of the day, you’ve created something.
549
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what’s best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you’re banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
550
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
551
My Mom and Dad always told me to not act on emotion, act on what is real. When you’re mad don’t do something wrong because you’re mad.
552
Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.
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To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
555
To me, beauty is natural beauty. If you’re naturally yourself, you’re beautiful.
556
To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.
557
She’s always there for me when I need her; She’s my best friend; she’s just my everything.
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To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I’m in a good mood – don’t meet me in a bad mood.
560
When it’s time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
561
Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.
562
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
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Personality for me is the strongest statement.
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
567
If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
570
I don’t give a damn what people say about me. I like me the way I am, and who cares what other people say?
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I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
573
I watched the ‘Food, Inc.’ documentary and was like, ‘This has opened my eyes to the meat industry – maybe I should go vegetarian.’ And my friend told me, ‘Sadie, you’re not gonna last a week.’ But I’m very competitive.
574
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.
575
This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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Everyone has a right to their own opinion about me, and that’s fine. I’m just going to keep being myself and living my life. That’s all I can do.
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To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.
580
I wish they would only take me as I am.
581
It’s easy to impress me. I don’t need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I’m happy. I’m satisfied. I’m content.
582
The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
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I’m a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.
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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
587
But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.
588
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
589
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
590
I try to tell all the – not even the kids, even people older than me – to just be themselves. Don’t wear what I wear ’cause I wear it; wear what you like.
591
Once you label me you negate me.
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I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.
594
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.
595
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.
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I love my mother and father. The older I get, the more I value everything that they gave me.
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I don’t care if you’re gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It’s all an illusion.
600
Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.
601
Being cool, having a ‘cool’ energy is just not attractive to me.
602
You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
603
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.
604
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.
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I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
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Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.
609
I’m proud of my hard work. Working hard won’t always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I’ve wanted that I haven’t always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
610
People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
615
My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.
616
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.
617
I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn’t get banks to fund me; I couldn’t recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn’t want to deal with women.
618
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
619
Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games.
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Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don’t give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.
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The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‘That can be me.’ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.
624
Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language… it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things.
625
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
626
No damn man kills me and lives.
627
My memories mean a lot to me, and I hold them close to my heart.
628
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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You’ve got to have a villain and they’ll always make me a villain. I’m used to it – it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
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You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
638
I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.
639
My wife was afraid of the dark… then she saw me naked and now she’s afraid of the light.
640
I don’t care what people think of me. I don’t even care what happens to me.
641
For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn’t about conquering something; it’s being happy with who you are.
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I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.
645
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
646
Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.
647
Eskimo: ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ Priest: ‘No, not if you did not know.’ Eskimo: ‘Then why did you tell me?’
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To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
650
I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
