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Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely am concerned with preservation. For me, what's interesting is the archival state, or how long oil paintings last.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me... anecdotes. But never a joke.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen 'Mork & Mindy' a couple times. Robin Williams amazes me. And I love Gary Coleman. He puts me away. He puts everybody away.
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- Nov 07, 2020
TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you were to ask any children of any politician, when you've been part of a political life, you are not on the sidelines. There is no such thing as a member of a political family who is only a spectator. You see the wheeling and the dealing. That doesn't intimidate me. I'll do a little of that myself, on behalf of my constituents.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.
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- Nov 07, 2020