- Nov 07, 2020
Own Quotes
What's uniquely yours, described in your own words.
These quotes center on individuality, from treating every person as their own separate world to musicians moving on to pursue their own separate projects after a group disbands. For related lines on personal identity, see Like quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.
- Gauge
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- Nov 07, 2020
We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for, processed by our women friends. Relationships are the conduits through which flows our connection with each other.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can't take something down in 10 bullets, you probably shouldn't even own a gun.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how you measure it, whether you measure the amount of mass or you measure the number of bodies, most of our solar system exists out beyond the orbits of the asteroids. So we could not have claimed to know our own solar system until Voyager had toured the giant planets.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.
- Executive Producer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1980, aided by $1.5 billion in loan guarantees from the U.S. government and his own pitchman routines on television, Lee Iacocca brought Chrysler back from the abyss.
- Fitness
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- Nov 07, 2020
My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.
- Entity
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- Nov 07, 2020