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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
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's one race on this planet. It's called the human race. We're all the same. To me, there is absolutely nothing that has color to do with it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't worry too much about people hating or insulting me. I'm a sinful man, and I've made a lot of mistakes. People have reason to hate me.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to me are being done properly. That is not unreasonable.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.
- Nov 07, 2020
This sport has given me so much. It has taught me to be strong emotionally and physically.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are days when I don't count sets at all, but then there are some days when I have to realize that I don't want to overwork because I still have an hour of cardio ahead of me or another training session later that day.
- Nov 07, 2020
I train as smart as I can. I'm not concerned what others think. I do what works for me.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stick to bread-and-butter bodybuilding. I hit my muscles from various angles, work on bringing up any weaknesses, and design workouts that are always challenging and helping me progress.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you see me at the show, I'm smiling because I want you to know I can do this all day.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw so many radically different versions of Iraq. It would have been difficult for me to come back and think, 'This is the Iraq experience.'
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020