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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.
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- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace.
- Nov 07, 2020
What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ma and pa are both very artistic, so I suppose it's in my blood. But my ma's the one who was into theater and such. I owe my love of it to her. If she didn't drag me to small community workshops when I was a wee little lad or exposed me to anything artistic for that matter, I wouldn't be who I am today.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
They, that unnamed 'they,' they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.
- Instinct
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was watching a black and white television in Cairo, MI., at my grandparents' house, and I watched Neil Armstrong step on the moon. At that point, it set the bit for me to be an astronaut, and it was kind of like a dream, but it really wasn't reality.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children often ask me, they say, 'Well, how do you become a fighter pilot, or how do you become an astronaut, or...?' And I say, 'Love what you're doing and do it very well.'
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
It still amazes me, when I go out and fly the T-38, and I'm looking at those little, short, skinny little wings, and that thing's flying. It's just amazing to me, even now.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
John Glenn's anniversaries have followed me all of my life. I was born in 1962, the year he orbited Earth.
- Nov 07, 2020