Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Myself Quotes from famous persons: Michel de Montaigne, Cathy Freeman, Martha Beck, Janet Echelman, Dolly Parton. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Myself Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.
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I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.
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I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.
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After I got my gold medal, I thought, ‘This isn’t just me. It belongs to my team, my friends, my family, the fans, everybody who’s impacted my life – this is our gold medal.’ So when someone asks to try it on, I’m like, ‘Sure, why not?’ I might be a little too relaxed about it, but why would I keep it to myself?
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Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn’t be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn’t a life plan.
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I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.
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I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.
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I’m being myself when the camera is rolling.
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I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I’m doing is making money off other people’s creativity, and I’m not creating anything myself.
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I’m proud of myself. I could break and go get all this plastic surgery and get my nose fixed and get lipo or do whatever, but I haven‘t chosen to do that because I know I’m a great person. I’m pretty damn hot, if you ask me.
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If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.
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I see myself as a player for whom there are no limits.
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I’m a big believer in small, dark, cozy bedrooms. I would describe myself as introspective – I feel things first, and then I think them through – and I need the enveloping comfort of a little squirrel‘s nest when I have to retreat from the world to recharge.
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As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
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The best thing that I did was get myself out of an environment that was toxic to me and to my mental health. That was through retiring from football.
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There’s only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe – because I’ve done a little of this myself – pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
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I like to challenge myself. I like to learn – so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.
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You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you’d like to have it done. And I’ve always been able to surround myself with really good people.
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I don’t see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.
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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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I just got to a point where I was lying to myself constantly, so I had to face up to that. It was a lot of… I don’t want to use the words ‘self sacrifice,’ but that’s what it felt like. It was giving up who I thought I was and starting over from scratch and realizing the man that I am was good enough.
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I surround myself with positive, happy people. And I always try to balance things that I have to do with things that I want to do.
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I think I’m just always myself, and I think that’s what’s most important to me. Just be genuine. Be authentic. Be who you are and who you were meant to be. And celebrate that. Celebrate all of that.
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I think of myself as a living cartoon.
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I, myself, have tried following people around me, and I’ve got lost and ended up feeling emptiness rather than a sense of accomplishment. I’d like everyone to find their own role models within themselves.
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The only pressure I’m under is the pressure I’ve put on myself.
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If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
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I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.
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I’ve realized that the most important thing I can do to look good is just treat myself well, whether it’s getting a nice, long massage or just lying low and not going out every single night.
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I just want to be myself.
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I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.
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I don’t imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact, the idea of there even being a standard freaks me out a lot.
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Before I start, I search the internet for hours looking for inspiration – I look at horror movies, special effects, everything. Then, I take a bunch of screenshots, and pile them together in Photoshop to create a story for myself. I plan it out in my head, but I don’t ever practice beforehand.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that’s my job. It’s no one else’s.
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I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.
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Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
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I’ve trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.
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I do quite well for myself, but I live a simple life.
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I’d like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.
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I wouldn’t say I’m underrated, but more reserved. Only time will tell, but I’ve been good so far in being consistent and making hit after hit writing for myself and other artists, from rap to R&B, and being able to make those different records.
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I feel beautiful when I’m at peace with myself. When I’m serene, when I’m a good person, when I’ve been considerate of others.
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I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don’t really consider myself that at all.
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I don’t like defining myself. I just am.
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I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?
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There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they’re just naturally gifted. I’ve never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.
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Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
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As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
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I restore myself when I’m alone.
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I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.
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I wouldn’t limit myself to nothing. I feel like I am limitless.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me… I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.
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I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I’ve ever done.
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I like to challenge myself. I like to learn – so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.
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Every day, I wanna work on being a better person, not just to others but to myself.
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I hate when people say I Photoshop myself.
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I would like to say this for the record: that I am not trying to lose weight or gain weight. I am just trying to be the best version of myself, and that’s really important.
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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
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By nature, I’m a very positive person, and because I’m happy in myself, and in my life, and I’ve got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don’t, it’s just real hard to get through the day, and I’ll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.
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I consider myself a lesbian, but I’m a bisexual lesbian.
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The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.
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I’m human, I’m not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I’m already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.
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I consider myself a remarkably unsentimental person. I don’t look back on the good old days.
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If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that’s pretty good.
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
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It’s just the risk that I take and the sacrifice that I make: Putting myself, my career, my family’s peace of mind on the line just to do right by my fans. It ain’t no gray area: You’re either with that and willing to go out of your way to make people who contribute to your dreams coming true happy or you aren’t.
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I’m the type of person to put myself in everybody else‘s shoes.
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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
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I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn’t until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don’t have a problem going to sleep at night.
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I asked myself, ‘What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to be like everyone else or are you going to do what’s right?’ I just made a decision. I said, ‘It’s time to grow up. It’s time to start living for the Lord, do things the right way.’ I accepted the Lord, and it changed my life.
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I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.
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The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
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I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
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As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.
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I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
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Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.
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I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.
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DJing is my only peace of mind. When the phone is off, I play my favourite songs really loud for myself, and I’m not talking to anyone; I’m not managing anything. It’s just, like, a time when I can listen to music.
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I’m not that conservative. I do feel – I guess I’m more of a Democrat at heart, although I’ve never affiliated myself with a particular party.
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I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
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I’m not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can’t join your gang: you’d think I was a phony and I’d know it.
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As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.
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I love challenging myself, doing different things, and exploring different areas that I haven’t been to or gone to before.
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I’ve just got to remind myself that it’s hard to express tone and sarcasm and stuff through text.
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I don’t think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
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When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you’ve made. I tell myself, in the long run, it’s the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.
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I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I’ve been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it.
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But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.
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For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people’s revolution with but one aim in view – the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations.
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I consider myself to be a man with my priorities in order.
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I don’t have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.
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I knew I wanted to do music, but leaving such a successful career one would think I’d kind of shot myself in the foot. I knew I made the right decision, and at the end of the day it’s up to me to get where I want to go, but it’s a lot to take on.
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I need to put myself out in the world and be brave and be uncomfortable. When I do, it means I can enjoy life so much more.
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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
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I’m learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I’m doing.
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Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it’s a dream, but I ain’t pinching myself yet.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.
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I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. It’s just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself.
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For me, I know that people always expect me to be perfect, so when I’m not perfect, it’s really frustrating. I’m really hard on myself and want things to work out right away.
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Doctors look after me. But, basically, I look after myself. I don’t overeat. I don’t develop a big paunch. I do a little bit of exercise. At the same time, I believe that if you don’t work, you will decay. The decay process is through not using your faculties – not using your brain, not using your body.
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To be honest, ‘Ready Steady Cook‘ was a great opportunity, but I did compromise myself. I was stood there quizzing chefs on what they were doing when I knew exactly what they were doing and why.
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I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.
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I keep lot of my opinions to myself.
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I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.
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I appreciate that my fans think I’m classically good-looking and that I have a clean-cut image, but I also want to show other sides of myself.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.
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Every time I dance, I’m trying to prove myself to myself.
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More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies.
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In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, ‘Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.’
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Humpty’ was something I had to do. I had to stretch myself as an actor.
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I don’t play a character. It’s totally just an extension of myself.
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I didn’t inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I’m crazy fortunate.
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The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
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I like to keep some things to myself, because its called a private life, not public.
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You can’t be a sexy person unless you have something sexy to offer. With me, it’s my voice: the way that I sing, the way I express myself when I sing.
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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I never said to myself, ‘I’m going to be the greatest.’ I just wanted to do my own thing.
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I don’t mind if other people call me an atheist, but I call myself a naturalist. Atheism doesn’t tell you much about what I do believe in; the term naturalist opens up the discussion better.
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I don’t like to filter myself, but I do it for PR’s sake.
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I can buy anything I want now. It hasn’t changed me personally. It just changed what I can do for myself and my family.
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I don’t want to forgive myself. That’s why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you’re guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it – how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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I dress myself, not to impress, but for comfort and for style.
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I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
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I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.
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Everything I do, I do it being myself.
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I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It’s like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working: when you’re in the street, listening to people, you’re forced to be in the service of your subject.
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I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.
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I like scaring myself.
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.
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I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.
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I like to express myself through the clothes that I wear.
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The evening is really hard for me. I have to force myself not to eat.
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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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All you can do is be your best self. I’ve always felt that I had to be that much more aware of how I present myself. I’m representing more than just me. I think every person should think that way.
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I can’t believe how much time has passed. The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York, and now I’m 41, and I still feel like I haven’t found myself onstage.
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All I’ve ever needed is myself.
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I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.
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I don’t like seeing myself on television. I don’t like it.
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.
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I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead – and that one was myself.
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I feel like I’m the chosen one, but I chose myself.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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While acting in ‘W,’ my worries about the way I act settled down. I also discovered another side of myself. It was a turning point.
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I am so rich that I must give myself away.
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I love going to cities around the world and seeing the rainbow flag, knowing that it’s a safe place where I can be myself.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it’s a search for how I can do things better, whether it’s being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.
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Tradition is the great misleader because it’s too easy to follow what has already been done – even though you may think you’re giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.
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My expectations on myself exceed any of those put on me.
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I’m confident in who I am, and I’m not doing anything wrong. I’m just being myself: being comfortable with my body, comfortable with my sound, and I’m figuring out who I am.
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I’m in competition with myself and I’m losing.
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Every year, every day, every month, I am proving myself.
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I’m not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself.
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I remember when I was a child… walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle.
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I have three assistants, but there isn’t a head assistant. All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
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I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed… so drastically, I couldn’t believe it myself.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I always tell myself, ‘There are so many things you regret doing or eating, but you never regret a workout.’ I always feel better after a workout. I have more energy, and mentally, I’m in a better place.
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I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
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I’m constantly trying to look at things from a different view and to put myself into some new perspectives to evolve myself, grow myself, and reinvent myself.
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I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.
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I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‘What a waste of energy.’ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.
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I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‘Here I am. This is me.’ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.
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I’m confident in who I am, and I’m not doing anything wrong. I’m just being myself: being comfortable with my body, comfortable with my sound, and I’m figuring out who I am.
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The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.
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I certainly don’t think of my life as a fairy tale. I think of myself as a modern, contemporary woman who has had to deal with all kinds of problems that many women today have to deal with.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it’s very relaxed and chill. I’m just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.
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I tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times.
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I would like to think of myself as destiny‘s child.
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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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I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m a character being written, or if I’m writing myself.
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There are times I can’t even figure myself out.
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I stay positive, keep positive energy to myself.
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Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.
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I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I’m quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there’s been a good degree of self-sabotage.
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During most of my life, my contact with Jews and Judaism was slight. I gave little thought to their problems, save in asking myself, from time to time, whether we were showing by our lives due appreciation of the opportunities which this hospitable country affords. My approach to Zionism was through Americanism.
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When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.
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Like everybody else, I am naturally selfish, and so I’m going to think about myself.
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I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.
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I’m a King. Regardless of what I’ve been through and what I’ve done, I present myself as a King. And I get that respect from people, from everybody I deal with. I worked my whole life to establish that respect and make sure I get that respect.
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I’m not somebody that’s trying to be somebody else. I’m being myself for the most part and people respect that.
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I’m just trying to stay within myself every day and keep going.
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I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.
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I’ve always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.
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I have lots of friends, but I’m probably a terrible friend to all of them, even my family. I wouldn’t be surprised if I found myself with no friends later on in life. My friends become my enemies.
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My life motto is ‘Do my best, so that I can’t blame myself for anything.’
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If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
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I didn’t always take myself that seriously. Image-wise, I was somewhat of a jokester.
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I say ‘here’s the thing’ a lot, both to alert people that I’m about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty.
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I’m just an entertainer, man. I don’t like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.
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I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.
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I pride myself on respecting my colleagues.
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Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.
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I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point, you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be. I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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I’ve always had high expectations of myself. I’ve never felt that there was anything I couldn’t do in this world.
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Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes – at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
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I’m in competition with myself and I’m losing.
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I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime.
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To me, being beautiful is just accepting myself. I feel beautiful when I’m wearing makeup; I feel beautiful when I’m not wearing makeup.
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I’m not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
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I kinda live where I find myself.
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I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.
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When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.
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I’ve never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I’ve always wanted to stay true to myself, and I’ve managed to do that. People have to accept that.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I really don’t think in the past. I sit down with many friends at dinner, and they like to talk about the good old days. I’m respectful of the good old days, but I find myself spending very little time reminiscing. I’m really looking forward.
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God made me the way I am, and I accept myself. I am who I am, and I’m proud of myself.
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I’m happy with being myself.
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You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.
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I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.
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I want to invest time in creating moments for myself.
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I’ve always told the truth. I think that’s been part of the foundation of my career. I don’t put myself above people. I don’t put myself different than people. And I, for one, know that none of us is immune.
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I work a lot in the slums of Tondo, Manila, and the life there is poor and very sad. And I’ve always taught to myself to look for the beauty of it and look in the beauty of the faces of the children and to be grateful.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don’t flaunt religion in conversation with others.
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I guess I just feel very comfortable with being myself.
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I really feel I have found myself as a chef. It’s very clear to me what I want to do – and how it should taste.
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I don’t know how to be comfortable. Comfort is uncomfortable to me so I push myself to new places.
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My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
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I decided a long time ago to be unfiltered and wholly myself in these areas of social media. I’ve been very happy with the results of this decision. I feel that I get lots of interaction and loyal support. So I’m grateful for my Twitter and Facebook followers every day.
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I’ve been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.
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I have gotten better at saying to myself, ‘Relax and just take this moment in. Appreciate it for what it is.’
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I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don’t pretend that.
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For myself, personally, I am never really aware of timing or anything because I am passionate about what I do, so I have found that if you really love what you do, then time flies.
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I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.
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In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that’s fun.
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I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.
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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.
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I created myself. I have taught myself so much.
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I’m not that conservative. I do feel – I guess I’m more of a Democrat at heart, although I’ve never affiliated myself with a particular party.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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I didn’t want anyone to have control over how people saw me. I wanted to have that power myself.
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And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I’m looking forward to some new perspectives.
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I take a lot of pride in being myself. I’m comfortable with who I am.
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I’m only competing with myself.
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I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.
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I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.
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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
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I’m happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I think, on the red carpet, it’s a weird, like, ‘Who am I? Am I me? Am I them?’
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Legacy is not what I did for myself. It’s what I’m doing for the next generation.
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I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
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Just being a commentator is not as easy as people think with going out there and talking for three hours. So, I don’t call myself a commentator: I call myself an analyst.
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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
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I think it’s hard to describe my style in one sentence. It depends on how I’m feeling. Sometimes I’ll dress more street; other times, I’ll dress more classy. I have so many different ways that I can express myself, so my style is pretty versatile.
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I do envision myself having kids one day, and I always wanted a little girl.
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There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.
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I really don’t have any weaknesses. I do have areas of my life that I am working on to grow, heal and evolve. Giving myself permission to rest is an area I am working on. Not rescuing my children and grandchildren is another area.
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Sometimes, I myself, even though I’m in Washington, I go quiet because there is so much intimidation around me.
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I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.
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If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I’m not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.
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Whether I’m at the gas station or I be at the store, I be there by myself. I be regular.
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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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I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that’s what I do.
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I couldn’t find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
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The pressure I give myself from within is what drives me.
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I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.
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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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I always knew I wanted to play golf and go to college. I try hard to be a positive role model, especially on the golf course. I try to carry myself well, and don’t do anything outrageous. I try to play the game like a gentleman and give everyone respect. That’s how the game should be played.
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It’s just like, damn – I’m competing with myself.
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I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.
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I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.
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I think my vice would be outdoing myself.
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Let me know myself; let others guess at me.
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But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.
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I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
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Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It’s extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
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I didn’t see myself as a woman doing film but as a radical film-maker who was a woman.
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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Whenever I’m stressed out or having a bad day, the one thing that gets me happy or back into like a good place of mind is being on the golf course. I love being out there, especially really early in the morning getting the first tee time out and just playing by myself. It’s so peaceful.
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In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you’re doing has any true impact.
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The evening is really hard for me. I have to force myself not to eat.
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Even at my lowest point, when I’ve wanted to give up, I know that I have to believe in myself because I’m all that I have.
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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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I get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 – and they are always the first ones to come up. That’s why I don’t Google myself, man.
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I always wanted to win, but I only used to get upset if I hadn’t done myself and the people around me proud – that was my motivation for always wanting to do better.
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The more I thought to myself, ‘Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?’ the worse it was… one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that’s the extent you will be in pain.
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I’ve told myself I have a chance to make history, and that’s my focus.
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The more precisely I can drive, the more I enjoy myself.
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I don’t like myself without a beard.
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I listen to myself, listen to my heart.
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I have good and bad days like everyone else. I just try to be positive and surround myself with great people. When I think about all the great things and people I have had in my life, that gives me confidence.
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I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people’s ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That’s the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
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I look in the mirror and see a few scars, but I like myself.
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My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.
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I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It’s a voice of pain and victory.
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I am a mystery to myself.
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Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
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I experienced bullying a lot. I was an only child, and I was kind of a small kid with a big mouth, and so I always got myself in trouble.
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Responsibility for me is to be myself – which is not perfect.
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I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.
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I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
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I don’t like to talk about myself.
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I just bring energy, try to put myself in a good mood, because you’re not going to get through practice if you’re drowsy, don’t feel like doing nothing. Then it’s going to be a long practice and coach is going to be all over you.
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Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.
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I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.
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My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.
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My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?
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What people say isn’t going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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I just constantly tell myself that I should be the only one to define my worth and what I’m capable of and how I perceive myself. And that I should never source that worth from other people, especially strangers on social media. They don’t know who I am, the length of my journey, who I am as a person.
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I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.
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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
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Very smart people are often tricked by hackers, by phishing. I don’t exclude myself from that. It’s about being smarter than a hacker. Not about being smart.
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When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
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I’ve learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!
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I’m at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn’t competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I’ve gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.
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I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I’m here to support the human evolution.
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I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
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I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.
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I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don’t do it to seek anybody’s approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.
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When I give I give myself.
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I don’t consider myself a goody-goody, but I like to be perceived as classy.
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I’m very sure of myself – what I do and what I like.
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I’m a relatively shy person, but I love being challenged and putting myself in positions that are scary.
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My supplements are similar to my training – I always commit to being a better version of myself.
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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It’s very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don’t view myself as a political person. I’m just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
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I never rush myself. See, they can’t start the game without me.
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When I play bad, I don’t get too down on myself. When I play good, I don’t get too hot.
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I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.
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I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.
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Win or lose, I’ll feel good about myself. That’s what is important.
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I keep my thoughts to myself, and I think that’s one of the best ways to be.
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I’ve been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It’s boring.
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I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.
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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 did a terrible job of composing myself. I was a spoiled brat from Long Island who benefitted from the energy of New York.
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Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.
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You’ll be someone’s favourite, and someone else is going to hate you, aren’t they? I know that I can’t please everyone, but what I can do is be myself and be true to my values.
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