- Nature
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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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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
- Awe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am almost neurotically private myself. Because I think it's an important distinction to make between privacy and public sphere.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.
- Nov 07, 2020
I am post-Catholic.
- Conservative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020