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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
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes readers are telling me about what they read of my books and I don't remember at all.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most real dialogue for me is when I am alone, writing.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Morality is the least of my concerns. To me, morality in a society that - however moral its pose - is hierarchically organized is simply a lie, an alibi for the inequalities that exist in society.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course it would disgust me to tell anyone how to live.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many kinds of truth. But truth communicated by beauty is the only pure one. The only one that touches me in the heart.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are sections of the film that I don't love. There are moments that really lift and elevate, and then there are parts that feel clunkier to me. But the totality of 'Harold and Maude' is so much greater than maybe other films that are more perfect or look more beautiful or handle every moment more exquisitely.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many films I lean on and look toward and return to that give me some guidance on how to keep moving in the world, and that's what film does, at its best.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything good in my life can be traced back to my mother's sobriety. She showed me that broken people can - with the help of others - turn themselves around.
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- Nov 07, 2020