- Being
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to be an actor, and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man, and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Shire and I have been happily married for 21 years! We have a 12-year-old son. David is a genius. He writes the most magnificent music and he is a devoted and loving husband and father. I am so blessed!
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, when you're in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of people think I was born in a blue suit, on the David Brinkley show. And that isn't me. I am much more that kid who grew up in South St. Louis, in a very modest household, with a simple background with parents who didn't get through high school.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody else who's gotten the president of the United States elected, tell me you are better than I am at it.
- Hers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten.
- Good Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend in the garden - not least because I get good ideas for writing when I'm out there.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not political as a person.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a sports girl.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never have achieved what I’ve achieved now if I hadn’t sorted myself out from the inside. It’s all about who I am, not the way I look.
- Deficit
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- Nov 07, 2020