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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
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to find my own terms for success, and it wasn't anything like what I was told to do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started fundraising like me and leading like me, that's when I really started to shine and find my own rhythm.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.
- Hay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love long-range rifle shooting. I like anything that deals with precision. I also find that with archery. On my ranch, I have my own range with 3-D targets of animals and hay bales from different distances.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.
- Mental
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The diagnosis was immediate: Masses matting the lungs and deforming the spine. Cancer. In my neurosurgical training, I had reviewed hundreds of scans for fellow doctors to see if surgery offered any hope. I'd scribble in the chart 'Widely metastatic disease - no role for surgery,' and move on. But this scan was different: It was my own.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to politics, it's nice to be mired with Sarah Palin. But I'm Paul Gosar. I'm my own person.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as doing a TV special, I would have to be in control of it. I'd want my own team of animators to work on it.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020