Me Quotes
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Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Everyone else was always asking things from him. I wasn't asking anything. I was just happy to be there.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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Nickelback offered me a full-membership position. That's a great thing.
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I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
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I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
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Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.
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I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
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I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
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I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.
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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
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Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
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I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.
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Dad's funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back, a lone Marine stood silently, then left. People told me he'd saved their life or helped them in their darkest hour.
