Quotes with self-made

Quotes 581 till 600 of 1724.

  • Burt Shavitz I realized I had it made because you don't have to destroy anything to get honey. You can just use the same things over and over again, put it in a quart canning jar, and you've got $12.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Barry Humphries I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I really hate to be put in the position of trying to justify something, a decision that was made. I'm a military guy: when a decision is made, I go along with it, whatever the manufactured controversy and criticism.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Hilaire Belloc I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Anatole France I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Bryan Batt 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.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Barbara Jordan I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
    Barbara C. Jordan--selected speeches
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Arthur Miller I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • A. N. Wilson I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Kofi Annan 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.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Angela Davis I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Andre Norton I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.
    Andre Norton
    American writer of science fiction (1912 - 2005)
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  • Lord George Byron I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • William S. Burroughs I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Malcolm X I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Anthony Hopkins I wanted revenge; I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile way to go through life - I'll show them - but I've done it, and I've got more than I ever dreamed of.
    Anthony Hopkins
    Welsh and American actor (1937 - )
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Zig Ziglar I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Al Sharpton I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Richard Nixon I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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