- Dined
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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
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Busta Rhymes, I have to give him credit for one thing: he always lays the red carpet out for me when I'm in New York.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to thank my mother for this. When I was a little boy she used to teach me poems. I would go in church and tell the poems in church for the Easter program, and again for Mother's Day and any occasion she felt would fit. I was very energetic with delivery at that time as a boy, so it stuck with me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
- Eternally
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dancing in speakeasies was a job, and none of us knew for sure who were gangsters. No one told us, so how could we know? My mother used to come and take me home. We thought nothing of walking home together at two in the morning.
- Different Parts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020