- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.
- Great Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been great things that happened to me.
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.
- Flew
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was almost two years old, my grandmother flew from Hongcheon, South Korea, to Flushing, Queens, to take care of me.
- Devoured
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I was a teen, I was an expert at scanning people's faces, always in search of eyes like mine. I devoured glossy magazines, ever mindful of the language we used to talk about beauty. The sections on how to apply makeup intrigued me most precisely because their audience never included me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a Korean American, I grew up yearning to see actors that looked like me. On the rare occasions I saw an Asian celebrity, I adored them unflaggingly.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother raised me when I was little. I was born here, and my parents are immigrants; they needed someone to help take care of me because they were working a lot, so my grandmother came from Korea. So I'm very close with my grandmother, and I keep in touch with her a lot.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a practical family. The idea of being a writer seemed impossible to me.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020