- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
- Better Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do all I can to make my world a better place to live in for me and for my kids as well.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me a while to find myself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my passport. I plan trips very last minute, so I always carry it with me.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020