- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, acting is about getting away from myself. So to look at myself is the last thing I want.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the middle of five children, and we were five very opinionated siblings. That probably pushed me to learn to speak up for myself.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020