- Fine
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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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an undergraduate at UBC in Canada, I fell in love with economic theory. It was the right choice for me.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it.
- Better Understanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020