- 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
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Minimalism has a connotation of being reductive, and not in the best way. 'Brevetist' is a better term. I'm trying to be as concise as possible and still getting across to the reader. When information is delivered in that way, it is very satisfying to me.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am still in touch with my Secret Service agents, most of whom are retired now. They really get to be your friends. They watched me grow up, and most of them had little kids, so I was kind of giving them a warm-up of what was coming.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I keep going back to, and what keeps me going, is trying to do good in whatever little spot of the world we can influence, no matter how small.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The decision to join Stripe and run 'Increment' was a pretty easy one for me: It was an opportunity to be impactful, to collect and share best practices from the most effective engineering teams in the world. 'Increment' is a step toward flattening the distance between the Silicon Valley elite and developers everywhere.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had a single thing handed to me. I had to fight for everything I wanted, like my education.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was harassed and discriminated against, I fought as hard as I could - because I hadn't gone through all of that, I hadn't worked so hard my entire life, just to have someone take it away from me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she does illumine, and she makes relationships realities as well as people. But I remember the intensity, the thrill, with which I read 'Passage to India.' How I would have hated anyone who took the book away from me.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh, maybe a few friends will remember me affectionately. Being remembered isn't the most important thing, anyhow. It's what you do when you are here that's important.
- Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yorkshire is so much part of me.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty, musty term, and yet it clearly applies.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020