Ourselves Quotes
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Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.
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If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.
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I think I want the best for my country. I can make work that makes us examine some truths about ourselves - that would be more of a contribution. That's how I see it.
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We could search the whole world and never find another being more worthy of our love than ourselves.
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It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
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We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.
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Fashion is not separate from art. It is inextricably woven into how we open ourselves to the world and articulates the exchanges of power both real and imagined.
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I think that as women sometimes, we put ourselves secondary because we kind of lose ourselves and the part of us that makes us awesome.
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As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records; to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays; to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could; to give as we never have given; to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever. This is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves.
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It saddens me how much fear we've instilled in ourselves.
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We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.
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Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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We tend to outdo ourselves.
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The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.
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I'm trying to do the exact thing Verdi or Mendelssohn did - open up that spiritual space where we can all be fully ourselves.
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We're not supposed to win, so it puts pressure on everybody else. We've played good baseball like we've done all year, and we're just being ourselves. People are going to continue to count us out, but at the same time, just be the White Sox that we were from the first game of the season.
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We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?
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We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.
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'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it mean to be human? What remains after everything we trust, everything we believe in and rely upon, has been stripped away?
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In modern life, we hide behind ourselves. In Shakespeare, there's nowhere left to hide. It's life, larger than life, and every actor has to raise their game to get there.
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When we hope, we trust in God. When we despair or presume, we choose to trust ourselves instead.
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Fox has always allowed us to be ourselves. They've never told us what we can say, what to say, what not to say.
