- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I Am Quotes
Quotes that begin with I am.
Each quote here starts with a direct claim of identity - some playful, like calling oneself a ham who likes to joke around, others more reflective, tying personal identity to one's art. Related reading includes Am Quotes.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for me to imagine a philosopher disconnected from the world, indifferent to the cares of his country, unmoved by poverty, unemployment: I am a committed citizen.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am aware that if I do become the president, I, too, could be processed for any political wrongdoing.
- Doomed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not doomed.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am still learning.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and processor of press releases - was, in the world of letters I grew up in, a lower-down job. To be a writer - once the ambition of every journalist - was to be the greater truth teller.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am in the representational business, a portraitist. I have tried to walk an amused line amid hyperbole, documentary detail, cruel characterisation, occasional affection, some good punchlines and anthropological social insight. It's been a good living.
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- Nov 07, 2020