- God
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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
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions - one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.
- Nov 07, 2020
I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always saying to myself, there aren't enough hours in the day, which I think any working mum says to herself.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?
- Elastic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to get my pants buttoned. One more pregnancy and I'd be doomed to elastic waists for the rest of my life.
- Each Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first discovered for myself the Celtic Twilight and read the earlier poems of Yeats and others, all was entirely incomprehensible to me. I groped through a mist of blurred meanings, stumbled through lines in which every accent seemed to be in the wrong place.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020