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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
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.
- Firsthand
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
After being replaced in Styx, everyone around me encouraged me to try and stop them legally. I just couldn't. It would have been like suing myself and I held out hope they'd ask me back. They toured under the STYX name for a year and a half before I initiated legal action. I didn't sue for money or use of the name. I simply wanted back in the band.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still see myself as the kid who plays accordion and tries to keep people happy for 45 minutes. And there's nothing wrong with that.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our music did not sound like the Beatles in any way, shape or form. I could never find it in myself to use those Beatles tricks in Styx records because they were sacred to me. But what they did always influenced my thinking.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it came time to do 'One Hundred Years' I had been encouraged to really make a Styx album without the guys. I gave myself permission to do that. I set out to get people who sang with me who could make those harmonies.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sam Cooke was a gospel singer like myself, and when he crossed over and started singing rock n' roll, it kind of gave me the green light to go ahead and do it.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took one thing to heart that I heard from Sidney Poitier in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.' And it resonated so much with me. He says: 'Dad, you always looked at yourself as a black man. I look at myself as a man.'
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always thought of myself as an athlete - even at the ripe old age of 52.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pride myself on being limber.
- Nov 07, 2020