- Intelligence
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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
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most startling events in my life was when my older son was about 16, and he blamed me for all the troubles of the world. So I, I felt like telling him, 'Oh no, I was just like you when I was your age; I wanted to change the world, too.'
- Broader
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided I would open this little actors' workshop I always told actors to look for. That gave me something to do on Wednesday nights, and after about a year of that, I realized that some of the things I was saying to actors probably had broader application. I ran into a magazine called 'Speakers For Free.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the laboratory. We could do this in animals increasingly... this was the way to go in the human species.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Shining' is one of the few horror movies that I actually like and it actually scared me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020