I Quotes
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“I am always surprised when people do get upset. Perhaps its just the nutty people who write to newspapers who get upset.”
“I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.”
“I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.”
Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom
“I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government, in a democratic society. It's a challenge for school reformers, like reformers in any realm, to build a popular constituency for their work. If the people it's supposed to benefit vote against it, that tells me that the person pushing reform lacks political skill. And political skill is a good thing.”
“I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted.”
“I am always the 'good guy,' and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.”
Source: Wally George: The Father of Combat TV
“I am always the Baywatch girl at heart. The rock 'n' roll got harder and softer but I wouldn't give up those times for anything.”
“I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.”
Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
“I am always the first to say that fame and entertainment is one of the best and easiest occupations to ever have, but one must know how to navigate through the matrix or you may find yourself in a very dark hole.”
“I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.”
“I am always the type of person who is waiting for the other shoe to drop and for it to peter out and end. And if it does that's fine.”
“I am always thinking 'What am I doing here? Is this the way I am supposed to feel?'”
“I am always thinking music.”
“I am always thinking of you. I think of you in battle. I think of you in the dark of night. When my mind is silent or full, you wait there for me.”
Source: The Oleander Sword
“I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.”
Source: The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920
“I am always this happy-go-lucky person, but sometimes my ‘happy-go-lucky’ runs out.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“I am always this happy-go-lucky person, but sometimes my ‘happy-go-lucky’ runs out. I try to always go with the flow. However, sometimes going with the flow has its limits.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“I am always torn. Between control and chaos; passion and tranquility. Between what's fated and what I want. Part of me longs to take the plunge, to dive off headfirst and let the feeling of control evaporate on the wind. And part of me wants to be in a place where I'd never have to worry about that choice--or any choice. Where peace and calm are the only things I'd feel.”
“I am always touched when friends make contributions to my foundation on my behalf.”
“I am always training because I love it.”
“I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?”
“I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.”
Source: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
“I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.”
“I am always trying to do something new and different. The first step is curiosity, questions. You pay attention to what fascinates you. If you can't shake it, there is something there.”
“I am always trying to eat the right kind of foods that are going to keep me healthy.”
“I am always trying to figure God out so that I can figure Him in. But after a while I figure that I should just let God be God, and figure that He’ll figure it all out anyway.”
“I am always trying to find fabrics that are more friendly to the environment - working with Virgin Atlantic, they managed to research into this and find more eco fabrics.”
“I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'”
“I am always trying to write.”
“I am always tying up
and then deciding to depart.”
Source: Meditations in an Emergency
“I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.”
“I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.”
“I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.”
“I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.”
Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change
“I am always watching for fear of getting feeble and passé in my work. I don't want to trickle out. I want to pour till the pail is empty, the last bit going out in a gush, not in drops.”
Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
“I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the utmost pains that I can to be perspicuous, some obscurity may still appear to remain upon a subject, in its own nature extremely abstracted.”
Source: The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond
“I am always willing to share my perspective and my personal experience and my journey.”
“I am always with London On Da Track, Wheezy, 808 Mafia Mike Will Made It, Ricky Racks.”
“I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.”
Source: Collected Shorter Fiction, vol. 1
“I am always with you, Ira.”
Source: The Longest Ride
“I am always working on the go.”
“I am always working on the go. I have never had an office that I work out of and work has become intertwined with my personal life. Fortunately I am able to work from my home and can answer my e-mails in the morning, play tennis or kitesurf in the afternoon to keep fit and have meetings or phone calls in between.”
“I am always working out, whether I am on vacation or at home. When in La Jolla, I like to surf, play tennis, and golf - but surfing is definitely my favorite.”
“I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'”
“I am always worried whether I am doing my best work.”
“I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.”
“I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.”
“I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.”
“I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.”
“I am always yours to call, wherever the sea can reach.”
Source: The Sacred Band