Yourself Quotes
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.
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I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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It's very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It's really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it's impossible to fully see yourself.
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When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.
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The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.
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Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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The number one priority in life is to take care of yourself and make sure you're happy.
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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
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You always have to think in a new modern way, and you always have to push yourself in fashion because it's a big treadmill. You can't really get off it. You just have to move a little faster.
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When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling when that happens.
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You read about poor people having Botox go wrong and you think: 'Well, what the bloody hell were you doing?' Why would you inject yourself with poison? And why are we spending so much time looking at ourselves? I just don't get it.
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When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.
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I was very fortunate when I was little - I played basketball. You really absolutely learn how to be a team player, how to win a game, to accomplish things, not just for yourself.
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It's hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself - PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.
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There is something so fun about scaring yourself.
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You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.
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When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
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Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.
