Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Bruce Springsteen My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bill Haslam My job as governor is different from the legislators. They represent their districts. I have to represent all 6.6 million Tennesseans and come to the best decisions I can.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Bob Schieffer My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Beth Ditto My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don't accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it's up to you to work out where you're going and to create your own specific rules and goals.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Tim O'Brien My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Thomas Paine My mind is my own church.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 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. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Brian Austin Green My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Eliot My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • William Faulkner My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Allen Ginsberg My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh My own experience is that everybody is born with a certain talent, and unless he lives that talent to its fullest, something in him will remain missing. He will go on feeling that somehow something is not there that should be.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Anne Rice My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Daisy Ashford My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
    Daisy Ashford
    English writer (1881 - 1972)
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  • Thomas Paine My own mind is my own church.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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