Own Quotes
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The soul is here for its own joy.
Rumi
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In his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end
Catherynne M. Valente
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Every single person is the star of their own story, which means that every single person goes through the gamut of emotional experiences that we’re trying to get on stage and tell.
Nikka Graff Lanzarone
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Art has no end but its own perfection.
Plato
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There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.
Laura Lippman
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It was seriously just a name. They didn’t tell you what to do. They didn’t tell you how they wanted the character to be - nothing. You went in to audition for this character name and that was it. When I started, before I came onto the set, I went to Gene Roddenberry and said: hey, what do you want from this guy? Who is he? And being as smart as he is, he said: don’t listen to what you’ve heard or read or seen in the past, nothing. Just make the character your own. And that’s what I did.
Michael Dorn
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Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.
Alan Sillitoe
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You want your kids to feel happy and good about themselves. The rest they'll work out on their own. You never know what your kids will be drawn to.
Buck Brannaman
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Our own government has become our enemy.
Chuck Baldwin
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Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That's what it comes down to, you know?
Will Champlin
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Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?
Nichiren
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Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause to individuals whose own work does not require isolated effort, the writer who is engaged on a book must learn to say it. He must say it consistently to all interrupters; to the numerous callers and correspondents who want him to speak, open bazaars, see them for 'only' ten minutes, attend literary parties, put people up, or read, correct and find publishers for semi-literate manuscripts by his personal friends.
Vera Brittain
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For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous!
Michael Musto
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You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion
Rumi
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Most women are more into real estate than sex. They want to own you.
Stephen Dobyns
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Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
Rumi
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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
Adyashanti
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The Prophet said: Prayer in congregation is twenty-five levels better than a prayer offered on one’s own.
Aisha
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I like it a lot. That just goes to show the rapport we have with the coaches and they trust us enough to do something on our own that we recognize so we can make a play.
Charles Tillman
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One never really knew what went on inside the hearts of other people, even those hearts you thought you knew as well as your own.
Debra Ginsberg
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Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.
Abraham Lincoln
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She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.
Jane Austen
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When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency... Sophia something.
Nicola Cornick
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Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.
Jane Austen