But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am.
~By James Iha ~
When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?
~By Glenn Beck ~
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career.
~By Victoria de los Angeles ~
I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.
~By Chris Brown ~
Sometimes I forget that I am even watching myself, realizing that's me. It's like you almost become a fan yourself: You are just this normal person watching this show, and then you realize that it's your show. It's weird sometimes.
~By Evan R. Wood ~
He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.
~By Antonio Porchia ~
I'm proud, I've been working with this kind of self-sacrificing people like you.
~By Islom Karimov ~
The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
~By Robert Baden-Powell ~
I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.
~By Spalding Gray ~
A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
~By Bo Bennett ~
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
~By Stephen Covey ~
Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.
~By Josiah Strong ~
A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.
~By Joseph Pulitzer ~
Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.
~By Dylan Thomas ~
I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
~By Forest Whitaker ~
Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
~By Yogi Berra ~
You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
~By Joan Of Arc ~
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.
~By James Sinegal ~
The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.
~By Martin C. Smith ~
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
~By Parker Stevenson ~
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
~By Jerome K. Jerome ~
You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.
~By Joan Sutherland ~
A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.
~By Todd Solondz ~
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
~By Otto Dix ~
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.
~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
~By William Godwin ~
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
~By Barney Oliver ~
There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.
~By Charles Eastman ~
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
~By Herman Melville ~
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
~By Harvey Fierstein ~
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
~By William Hazlitt ~
I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.
~By Rafael Palmeiro ~
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
~By David Mallet ~
Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.
~By Phil Crosby ~
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
Life itself is the proper binge.
~By Julia Child ~
I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.
~By Kim Kardashian ~
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Early on in my career, I'd go into the makeup trailer, and they'd spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I'd go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself.
~By Donna Mills ~
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem.
~By Charlene Tilton ~
For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
~By Barry Mann ~
I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
~By Ornette Coleman ~
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
~By Richard Courant ~
Human nature is not of itself vicious.
~By Thomas Paine ~
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
~By Coco Chanel ~
To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.
~By Juliana Hatfield ~
In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
~By Chris Stein ~
Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
I restore myself when I'm alone.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
I've cut myself out... I've cut scenes out that I was in and that's when you realize that you've got to make the best movie you can.
~By Jon Favreau ~
I make fun wherever I go... If I go to a restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it. I always have a great deal of fun being with people. It's part of the journey.
~By Cloris Leachman ~
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
~By Morarji Desai ~
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
~By Thomas Browne ~
I don't feel like a star; I never have. I don't feel like a star; I never have. I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one. I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself.
~By Shawn Johnson ~
I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.
~By Dana Plato ~
You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.
~By Charlotte Rampling ~
Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.
~By Geri Halliwell ~
And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.
~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
~By John Donne ~
The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
~By Harry Browne ~
Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.
~By Eugene Ormandy ~
A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
~By Henry Winkler ~
I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.
~By Pete Rozelle ~
One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
~By Toni Morrison ~
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
~By Plutarch ~
If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.
~By Rip Torn ~
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
~By Harper Lee ~
You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.
~By Philip Gibbs ~
All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.
~By Graham Swift ~
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
~By Albert Einstein ~
I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.
~By Shania Twain ~
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
~By Heinrich Heine ~
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
~By Bill Condon ~
Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself.
~By Tom Berenger ~
Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.
~By Picabo Street ~
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
~By William James ~
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
~By Patrick White ~
I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.
~By Michael Ondaatje ~
I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
~By Gwendolyn Brooks ~
When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.
~By William Collins ~
Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path.
~By Dick Thornburgh ~
Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.
~By Janos Kadar ~
The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.
~By Charles Hodge ~
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