- Love
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift, and I'm making the most of my opportunity.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't say I'm underrated, but more reserved. Only time will tell, but I've been good so far in being consistent and making hit after hit writing for myself and other artists, from rap to R&B, and being able to make those different records.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm putting everything on the line in being able to express myself in a different way than rappers normally do. They might say, 'It's rap' or 'It's R&B,' but I'm stepping outside the box and making music for me and making music for the fans to understand me. I'm going the extra distance to be able to come across different.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ain't giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain't got nothing else to say for you.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020