Own Quotes
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Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.
P. J. O'Rourke
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At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing - in the case of patents, many that own them aren't in a good position to take the next step.
Nathan Myhrvold
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When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.
Viggo Mortensen
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
Baz Luhrmann
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Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.
Cameron Crowe
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The people we grew up watching and listening to - Outkast, Gucci Mane, Hot Boys, Lil Wayne, Master P - all that type of stuff, we took those styles and made it our own.
Quavo Migos
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It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the star.
Earl Monroe
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Each song has its own life.
Zac Brown Band
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Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.
Louise Hart
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Be true to yourself. Establish your own style and stick to it.
Lynn Anderson
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. Eliot
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Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.
Yvon Chouinard
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By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.
Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
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Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.
Ted Rall
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For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
Barbra Streisand
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You never toot your own horn.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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I’d tell you to fetch a match, but you have always had your own spark.
Courtney Milan
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A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
Barbara Walters
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My own agenda is going to be followed, and that agenda is to maintain very good relations with the international community, and Lebanon has to fulfill its commitments.
Najib Mikati
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Everybody cares about their own, but Pittsburghers love and embrace them in a way I've never seen before, ... Dave's strong faith and integrity resonates extremely well in this community. He's forged in steel.
Jeff Long
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The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.
Idries Shah