- I Am
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- 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
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the late 1960s, the New Classical economists saw the same weaknesses in the microfoundations of macroeconomics that have motivated me. They hated its lack of rigor. And they sacked it.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding. My wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.
- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.'
- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020
I asked, 'What is this guy?' They said, he's part-fish, part-bird, maybe a bit of lizard, and you don't have to go through five hours of makeup to play him. That was good enough for me.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much everything about its physiology and life history, such as how long it is going to live, how many offspring it will have, the length of its aorta, how long it will take to mature, what is the pulse rate in the ninth branch of its circuitry.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody these days wants to be a star, including myself. Don't get me wrong, I'm a chef but you want to market yourself and your projects.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never missed a flight. And I don't see any reason in cutting it close because airports are pleasurable for me: You can go to the restaurant, get a massage, browse books, sit at a bar, check emails.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.
- Overcome
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- Nov 07, 2020
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020