- Politics
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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.
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- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an active and involved senator. It's very difficult to do the job I want to do and spend as much time as I want with my kids... It is time for me to be a father first to them, and I realize as I watch them grow and become young adults that I won't be able to get this time back.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Professional politicians are busy looking out for their jobs. Send me to Congress so I can look out for your job.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started wondering why it is that people line up behind charismatic leaders. It's easy to understand the emergence of a figure who's narcissistic and compelling. But why people follow this person mindlessly - that was the hard question to me.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics, and, some might argue, biology, my father was and still is a social scientist at the University of Toronto.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in childhood sorrows.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My very first publication was an estimator - this was a statistical procedure - a kind of invention. My father got a patent and started a business; it wasn't successful, but maybe I have some of him in me.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being human means there's a wall-builder in each of us. Our minds naturally divide the world into me and not-me, us and them. For thousands of years, our sages have taught that we're all one, yet we still divide wherever we look.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I accepted the role of spokesman for Lipitor because I am dedicated to the battle against heart disease, which killed my father at age 62 and motivated me to become a medical doctor.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.
- Doorstep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mormonism is not historic Christianity. When people say, 'Well, Mormons and Christians all believe the same things,' my response is, 'If that's true, why are they always on my front doorstep trying to convert me?'
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
These protesters, opposing me or our church, they're protesting the eternal Word of God, and guess what - they're not going to be successful in toppling the Word of God.
- Discovery
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- Nov 07, 2020
This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020