Quotes with first-person

Quotes 801 till 820 of 2595.

  • Agnes Macphail I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Jane Austen I pay very little regard to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Asa Gray I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Buddy Valastro I promised my daughter I'd name my first restaurant after her, but now the other kids are like, 'Dad, what about us?' I'm gonna have to open four restaurants!
    Buddy Valastro
    American baker and reality television personality (1977 - )
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  • Al Neuharth I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
    Al Neuharth
    American businessman, author, and columnist
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  • Anna Quindlen I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Michael Jordan I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
    Michael Jordan
    American basketball player and businessman (1984 - )
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  • Aileen Wuornos I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time.
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  • Martha Gellhorn I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
    Martha Gellhorn
    American novelist, travel writer, and journalist (1908 - 1998)
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  • Benjamin Franklin I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Alan Parsons I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
    Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996)
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Woody Allen I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Vikram Seth I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • Arsene Wenger I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Tiger Woods I think it's an honor to be a role model to one person or maybe more than that. If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
    Tiger Woods
    American professional golfer (1975 - )
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  • Malcolm X I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Abba Eban I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Ang Lee I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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