Quotes 281 till 300 of 893.
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.
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I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
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I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.
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I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
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I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
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I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.
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I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
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I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
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I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
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I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I think in your home, you should only use colors that you look good in. It's a little self-serving but think if it as you're on a stage. Not with any pressure, but you want to showcase yourself.
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I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
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I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.
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I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
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I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
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