Myself Quotes
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I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
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I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
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I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.
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I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.
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It's good for me to do things outside my comfort zone and push myself.
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I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.
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My family is Muslim. But I don't consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, whatever that means.
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I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.
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As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.
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What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
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I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?
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I'm always trying to find something new for my customers. Every season, I try to top myself and push it a little further.
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I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.
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I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.
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I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'
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I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me; I'm not that girl.
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When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.
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Honestly, I've just made music so long by myself, in some ways I don't feel I'm a very good collaborator.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.
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I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.
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I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
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When it comes to lingerie, there are no rules. I feel the sexiest when I'm myself, no hair, no makeup.
