- Healing
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- 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
- Clemency
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're not interested in history, if you're living for the day, you need some sort of cliche hook. I certainly don't think of myself as a cult anything. It's a strange thing to even consider pursuing.
- Bad Taste
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got out of the music industry many years ago. I had a charlatan for a producer who I wanted nothing to do with. He's dead now, so I guess I can't beat that horse any more. It left a very bad taste in my mouth, so I just went on about my business doing what I do and not involving myself with record companies, except for distribution.
- Nov 07, 2020
I essentially write for myself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through my own music, I was also able to find spirituality for myself.
- Messed Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Cuba in the winter of 1937. I was playing in Cuba, and I'm in the shower, and I slipped and caught myself with my right arm. I felt something pull right then. Then, in '38, when I came back, my arm was messed up.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.
- Choking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself pro-life, as I accept that the unborn is a human life with rights, and I do not support abortion on request or on demand.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll demand of myself and my own government what, in the past, I insisted of others.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I was to describe myself in terms of a political philosophy, I'd cast myself as a social and economic liberal, which is typically what people describe as being left-of-centre on social issues and right-of-centre on economic issues.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of myself as doing good works. It's not, 'Oh, I must give these poor people a voice.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember as a kid being asked if I was Jewish or Irish. I said, like the glib little 15-year-old I was, 'You can be both.' Feeling very pleased with myself. Before they smacked me.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020