Quotes with ­myself

Quotes 301 till 320 of 522.

  • Benoit Mandelbrot In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher. All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.
    New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Andrei Sakharov In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public.
    Andrei Sakharov
    Russian nuclear physicist, dissident and activist (1921 - 1989)
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  • Ben Horowitz In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Carla Bruni In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
    Carla Bruni
    Italian-French singer-songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Caprice Bourret In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.
    Caprice Bourret
    American businesswoman, model and actress (1967 - )
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  • V.S. Naipaul In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
    A Bend in the River (2012) 52
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Bob Kane In the Golden Age of Batman, I penciled, inked, and lettered my strip by myself.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Ben Zobrist In the minor leagues, previous to 2008, I took a lot of pitches. I prided myself on on-base percentage. I made sure that I made the pitcher work.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Beck In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Pearl S. Buck Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Diana Ross Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
    Diana Ross
    American singer, songwriter and actress (1944 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Henderson It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bobby Darin It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Bill Paxton It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Carol Lynley It was strange being an adolescent fantasy for other people. I was so cut off from the real world. I went straight into the movies as a teenybopper, and had a very protracted adolescence myself. I was divorced when I was 20, but I was an adolescent until I was 26. Then I was in Europe, living with this fellow and he kind of helped me out. Told me some things about myself.
    Interview by Roger Ebert, December 4, 1972
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  • Atom Egoyan It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Barney Frank It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Arthur E. Waite It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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