- Nov 07, 2020
Myself Quotes
Quotes on knowing yourself.
These quotes turn inward, questioning long-held traditions and how one sees oneself - one recalls identifying strongly as a mathematician rather than a technologist, while another admits, with some humor, to relying on charm rather than looks. Related reading includes I Am Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.
- Checking
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- Nov 07, 2020
In January 1921, I found myself wonderfully alone in an empty carriage in a rocking train in the night between Waterloo and Sherborne. Stars on each side of me; I ran from side to side of the carriage, checking the constellations.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
During most of my life, my contact with Jews and Judaism was slight. I gave little thought to their problems, save in asking myself, from time to time, whether we were showing by our lives due appreciation of the opportunities which this hospitable country affords. My approach to Zionism was through Americanism.
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have about 1,000 hours of myself on tape in a vault in Los Angeles. But I also have a photographic memory about my jokes, because they're really about me; they're my stories.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I'm on the phone, I just can't say no. I sometimes find myself doing things for three or four organizations in one day.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020