I Quotes
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“I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt. I view my species with a combination of wonder and pity, and I root for its destruction. And please don't confuse my point of view with cynicism; the real cynics are the ones who tell you everything's gonna be all right.”
Source: The Best of Brain Droppings
“I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.”
“I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.”
“I am a photographer who likes to make images, but I also want to get a sense and understanding of images that have already been made. I don't fabricate worlds; I pay attention to the things that already surround us.”
“I am a physician, and as a consequence I see things most clearly in medical terms. I am arguing that we need an immunization program, one that injects people with respect, dignity, and equality. One that inoculates them against hatred.”
Source: I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
“I am a physician; I can cure every ill and every kind of madness except love.”
Source: The Fairy Tales of Madame d’Aulnoy
“I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.”
“I am a picky eater. By that I mean, I love to pick the raisins out of oatmeal raisin cookies, the chips out of chocolate chip cookies, the white side off of black and white cookies, and the vanilla center out of Oreos.”
“I am a pig! I love to eat! i will eat anything! If you put it front of me, I will put it in my mouth, even if it doesn't taste good! And I can't stop eating until all the food is gone. It's probably one of the contributing factors as to why I became a drag queen. I can eat whatever I want, because I can just strap myself into a corset!”
“I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.”
Source: Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon
“I am a pilgrim of love, life and liberty, out to end conspiracy and superstition.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“I am a Pirate, A Pirate of Bollywood”
Source: Pirates of Bollywood
“I am a Piscean, and they have a lovingly detached attitude towards life.”
“I am a pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home.”
“I am a Pit Bull mixed with a Great Dane, mixed with a Rottweiler, mixed with a Bull Terrier, mixed with everything. That's what kind of dog I am.”
“I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.”
Source: Controversy Between New York Tribune and Gerrit Smith
“I am a plain ordinary human in the service of the humans - service is my oxygen, service is my water, service is my bread and service is my butter.”
Source: Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism
“I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.”
“I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.”
Source: Poems, 1913-1956
“I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.”
“I am a poem. There is no way out.”
Source: Selected Letters Volume 2: 1965-1970
“I am a poet by accident and a wanderer by choice. Cities speak to me not through guidebooks, but through stones worn smooth by centuries of feet.”
“I am a poet: I am always hungry.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“I am a Poet. I have no religion. I belong to the World.”
“I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.”
Source: Goldfinger
“I am a poet in
search of inspiration.
But she is eluding me.
Do I wait for her
to come to me?”
“I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.”
“I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of text as well as intentionality or dance on the page.”
“I am a police corruption researcher and I want to know how their ‘blue brotherhood’ system works. You have to undergo the adverse police encounters to get the research.”
“I am a political animal, because for God's sakes I think "We The People" is a job. I think experienced self government demands on all levels - intellectual, moral, historical, and spiritual level. We are supposed to be engaged and give directions to our elected employees.”
“I am a political person, though not with a big P.”
“I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm. Over the course of three decades, I have voted for presidents and school board members. I have voted in high hopes and high dudgeon. I have voted in favor of candidates and merely against their opponents. I have voted for propositions written with such complexity that I needed Noam Chomsky to deconstruct their meaning. I have been a single-issue voter and a marginal voter. I have even voted for people who ran unopposed. Hold an election and I'll be there.”
“I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music. I'm not sure if every song will be Take Me to Church, but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.”
“I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.”
“I am a politician, but I am also a Christian.”
“I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.”
“I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.”
“I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.”
“I am a poor wayfaring stranger
I'm travelling through this world of woe
Yet there's no sickness, toil nor danger
In that bright land to which I go
I'm going there to see my father
I'm going there, no more to roam
I'm only going over Jordan
I'm only going over home”
“I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas.”
“I am a pop girl! And I'm on a major label. I enjoy singing pop songs.”
“I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.”
“I am a positive person, and my strong belief keeps me motivated.”
“I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.”
“I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.”
“I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.”
Source: The Cancer Journals
“I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala.”
“I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.”
“I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.”
Source: The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland--For a Little While: A Tor.Com Original