- Little
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked me to go to a class - whether it was spinning, boxing, yoga, you name it - I went. By the end of the month, I felt so good, I just kept going. I didn't want to lose my momentum.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I looked to people who had the same issues as me and were still living great lives.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was precisely my love of the First Amendment that made me join sidewalk activists in 2010 to support an Islamic community center's right to open in Lower Manhattan.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created criminal profiling - a fascinating book, 'Mind Hunter.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man, and he was my brother.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend with one of her clients and his little sister while the parents went away on vacation. She brought me along.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life... and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that you are what you speak a lot of times, and there's power in the tongue. I feel sorry for the people who always have something negative to say. If something happens bad in my day, I don't tweet about it - I pray about it, or talk to my husband about it or my mother about it, and get it off of me and move on.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.
- Best Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that's as rewarding.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am blessed to have married the man that God sent me. He's loving, compassionate, strong and supportive of my children, family and career. I look forward to our lives together.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020