- Put
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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
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing 'Hoop Roots' was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can't play anymore - my body won't cooperate - so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play.
- Lion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to think of myself as a lion, bringing down the kill, controlling the jungle. A lion controls his jungle.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was on the verge of taking over a company myself, from my father, before I left Knoxville to become an actor. I was also a company commander in Korea, so I had some sense of how powerful authority can be. How dangerous it can be.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never think of myself as lumbering, but I guess I am. I forget how huge I am sometimes. I've seen movies where I'm with a group of people, and I'm like, 'God, I'm just so gargantuanly bigger than anyone else there.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020