Own Quotes
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I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.
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I would like to congratulate Steve. It was an extraordinary flight. I'm not very happy about losing my own record but I can't think of a nicer guy to take it.
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We are all experts in our own little niches.
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Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.
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Every man is his own worst enemy.
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It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
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You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.
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For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.
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If I didn't do this I'd sit back and die. I was a prisoner in my own castle.
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I think our insecurities are our biggest challenges, and we all have them. Trust me, I've got plenty of my own.
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I suppose it would be different if I sat down and listened to some of the recordings from way back, that might provoke that response, but I’m not really good at sitting down and listening to my own music.
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The only country that hasn't liked my music is my own.
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Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.
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I listen to my own music now because I'm busy writing now--I started hearing some things--I'm writing all the time. When you write you have to listen. Writing music is very difficult. At a certain level the work begins to dictate itself. I write the piano score first, then I'll set down a bass line. Sometimes I'll give the bass the bottom and I'll play subordinate tones. I use very close harmonies. I like strong rhythmic ideas, too.
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We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.
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I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.
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There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.
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Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.
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I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
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Submitting to others, rather than affirming our own reality, is the heart of active co-dependence—we give up our own inner world in order to be accepted by others.
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I realized that there's a big world, and really, the only way you can make a critical impact on something greater than your own little world is through technology.
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We have our own little heartbeat, too. We already have what I would call polyrhythms going on.
