Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Bonnie Tyler When I do a T.V. show, I hear all these artists in their dressing rooms doing scales - I've never done it because I've never had voice training. What I do to prepare is get in my car and sing along to the radio for about 20 minutes.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Agnes Macphail When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Benjamin Clementine When I first started singing in Paris, I sounded horrible: I was just singing to get some money to eat. And I wasn't singing my own songs: it was Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix. Eventually, when I wrote my own music, my style just came out of my own place.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Booth Tarkington When I get to be a man! Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: When I was a boy! It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • V.S. Naipaul When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Bjork When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn't after their money.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Barry White When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Cate Blanchett When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bow Wow When I see my own people going through the tough times, it's a wake-up call. I hope my influence can impact someone else's decision to get out here and vote.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Barry Lopez When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Betty Wright When I started out, even though you had your rhythm section, they were big horn sections, strings, live people laying on every part of the floor in the studio waiting for their chance to get on that one little track.
    Betty Wright
    American singer (1953 - 2020)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Bob Newhart When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural way of looking at the world.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Brad Feld When I struggled with a depressive episode in 2013, I realized that I had a glitch in my thinking about my own motivation. I had separated learning and teaching into different concepts.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • George W. Bush When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.
    Source: Tijdens een meeting met vier senatoren, 13 sept. 2001
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Abdallah II When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
    Abdallah II
    Jordan King (1962 - )
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  • Bill Clinton When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III When I was a congressman, I had occasion to talk to this group of students who were taking their seat. There were about 80 of them and I asked them, 'How many of you will be serving in the country once you graduate?' And, out of the 80, there were two that raised their hands. The rest were thinking of leaving.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Bob Newhart When I was off TV, people would ask me to please come back, which I think was their way of saying, 'There's nothing out there for us.'
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Brian K. Vaughan When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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