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- Nov 07, 2020
My Own Quotes
Owning it, good and bad.
Several of these are about carving out space to do things your own way after finishing a long chapter of work. For more first-person lines, see our I Am quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a historian in my own mind.
- Drummer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started my career, I was faced with a challenge of making my own identity.
- Cash Register
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own day-to-day observations confirm that many Americans can barely make change. At the supermarket where I buy groceries, I've watched more than one encounter at the cash register where both customer and clerk are befuddled at the prospect of double-checking the sums.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.
- Good Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Had I wanted, I could have set up my own company, secured funding, and made money. That proposition, however, does not excite me, since it would be a very self-centric goal.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know who Michael Jackson is, I know who Prince is, I know the Isley Brothers, all that. Still, I got my own thing going with this music.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am surrounded by exceptional women on Accenture's board of directors as well as my own leadership team.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing stuff on my own terms and making a record without being signed to a label - I credit that all to my commercial work.
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