I Quotes
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“I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.”
Source: The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
“I have always been thankful that so many of our countrys greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.”
“I have always been that figure, reaching up towards impossible things. Today I am sick with those desires, trying to channel the infernal patience of parenthood while a dozen stories ball up in my throat, unable to be written. I’m scared that it might be forever, that one obstacle after another will prevent me from making the work I need to make in order to stay sane.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.”
“I have always been the first on the dance floor. Before fame, people thought it made me a good laugh; now, people point and call me an attention seeker! I'm very aware of the way people can view me, but I'm very aware that I have to just enjoy my life.”
“I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!”
“I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like... why?”
“I have always been the life of the party. When I got to the point where I wasn't anymore, I knew something was wrong. I didn't know what it was. Once you figure it out, you can start to fix the problem. It's a day-to-day struggle.”
“I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps, doorbells, letters, telephones, snow, rain, thunder.”
“I have always been the type of person to want to reach a goal no matter how far-fetched it was.”
“I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.”
“I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.”
Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
“I have always been told that I was a funny, entertaining person and have always been told to give comedy a try.”
“I have always been uncomfortable with a series of movies. I hate that word 'franchise' - it always makes me think of French fries. What I felt each time was that we were going for broke, that this was going to be the last in the series. You can't count on anything.”
“I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal one's true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself?”
Source: Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty
“I have always been very calm on the outside.”
“I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.”
“I have always been very comfortable behind a microphone. I love talking about basketball, I love being around people, I love being around the game, the travel and the excitement around the arena.”
“I have always been very comfortable in little clothing; its part of my job.”
“I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.”
“I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential.”
“I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.”
“I have always been very entrepreneurial minded. Oftentimes, while I was sitting in class listening to my professor ramble on, I would think to myself: I could be out there making money right now.”
“I have always been very family-oriented. I came from a dysfunctional, broken family growing up, and it's probably instilled in me the need and the want to have a strong family and a great foundation. So I think that is something that I naturally gravitate toward.”
“I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.”
“I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.”
“I have always been very interested in the issue of drugs, because as much as illegal drugs are prosecuted, if you think of it as a health issue, the real killer are prescription drugs, like over prescribing of opioids.”
“I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time, I have been anguished by the fact that one of its most conspicuous material results is the flooding of our world with junk and rejected odd objects.”
“I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they're twirling around me at the time.”
“I have always been very open and honest about this part of my life with my friends, my family, and my colleagues. In a perfect world, I don't think it's anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted. I’m not an activist, but I am a human being and I don't give that up by being a journalist.”
“I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.”
“I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.”
“I have always been well liked, I think, always well regarded and respected, but having few enemies is not the same as having many friends, and there was no denying that I was, if not "lonely", more solitary than I'd hoped to be at that time.”
Source: Us
“I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.”
“I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done”
“I have always been with men who were type A, alpha males. I must exist because I'm with him, I'd think. But what made them what they were also often meant they were lacking empathy genes. And now I know I don't need an alpha male; I need somebody who's interesting. I'm not pretending that I'm 100 percent healed, so I might not know if a man is right for me right away, but it wouldn't take me seven years to figure it out. Maybe a month or two.”
“I have always been, am, and propose to remain a mere scholar. All that I have ever proposed to myself is to say, this and this I have learned; thus and thus have I learned it; go thou and learn better; but do not thrust on my shoulders the responsibility for your own laziness if you elect to take, on my authority, conclusions the value of which you ought to have tested for yourself.”
“I have always believed and promoted the fact that education and access to the knowledge society involves lifelong learning.”
“I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.”
Source: Picasso's paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sculpture: a comprehensive illustrated catalogue, 1885-1973. Spanish Civil War, 1937-1939
“I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.”
“I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.”
“I have always believed in asking a question if the answer might prove interesting and is given free of charge.”
Source: Places Where I've Done Time
“I have always believed in development over votebank politics.”
“I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.”
“I have always believed in God.”
“I have always believed in standing up for what I believe in and I believe that everyone deserves the right to love whoever they love no matter who they are.”
“I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end.”
“I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end. I feel that if adults cannot enjoy a children’s book properly there is something wrong with either the book or the adult reading it. This of course, is just a smart way of saying I don't want to grow up.”
“I have always believed in the power of collaboration. Early on in my professional career, I realized that you can't develop all the competencies you need fast enough on your own. Furthermore, if you don't collaborate, your ideas will be limited to your own abilities. As a result, you will not be able to serve your clientele and thus can't achieve the anticipated impact.”
Source: VishwaSutras: Universal Principles For Living: Inspired by Real-Life Experiences
“I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival.”
Source: Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters