I Quotes
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“I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.”
“I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.”
“I am not a politician.”
“I am not a politician. I have often been approached in this regard, but I have always declined these sorts of offers. I view myself as an independent, critical intellectual, as someone who tries to stimulate thought on the left and the right, to encourage intellectual evolution.”
“I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.”
“I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.”
“I am not a poor child, Lady Eleanor," Madelyne announced, letting her anger sound in her voice. "Duncan won't marry you. He won't sign the contracts. He'd have to give up his greatest treasure in order to marry you." "And what be that treasure?" Lady Eleanor inquired, her voice mild. "Why, I'm Duncan's greatest treasure. He'd be a fool to give me up," she added. "And even you must know that Duncan is anything but a fool.”
Source: Julie Garwood Box Set: Gentle Warrior, Honor's Splendour, Lion's Lady, and a New Excerpt!
“I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.”
“I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it is impossible to make valid affirmations of what people 'can' or 'cannot' observe. One would have to say 'only what we observe exists,' which is obviously false.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“I am not a possession.' I waited till the Prince's gaze returned to mine. 'I am owned by no one.”
Source: Fall of Ruin and Wrath
“I am not a preacher. I don't want to stand on a soapbox and tell people, "Don't drink. Don't use drugs." With my kids, I say "Don't drink. Don't do drugs." But when they turn 21, they can drink. I hope they never use drugs, but people make their own decisions. When they're old enough, they are going to have the chance to make their own decisions. I just hope I have given them enough love and support, and the ability to come and talk to me if they need to.”
“I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.”
“I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.”
“I am not a priest, I am not an imam, I am not a rabbi and I am implementing the French laws on every French citizen.”
“I am not a princess, I don't want to be referred to as a princess - I find that super creepy.”
“I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.”
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
Source: An Effective Life: Inspirational Philosophy from Dr. Covey’s Life
“I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity.”
“I am not a professional coach but I believe being healthy inside and out and cleansing your demons ... helps you perform better in business and become a more positive person.”
“I am not a professional politician.”
“I am not a promoter of more laws, just better ones.”
“I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.”
Source: The Promise of American Life
“I am not a prophet; I cannot predict what will happen.”
“I am not a psychological novelist, and I try very hard not to allow the reader to see the plight or circumstances of the characters as individual psychological plights. That's my preference; still, a lot of people do read my novels as psychological studies, and they're right to read them that way too, if that's what they mean to them.”
“I am not a quitter. I will fight until I drop. It is just a matter of having some faith in the fact that as long as you are able to draw breath in the universe, you have a chance.”
“I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.”
Source: February 1965: the final speeches
“I am not a redhead, I'm a blonde.”
“I am not a regret type person. I don't believe in regrets. Lots of things you would do differently if you'd do it again, but you don't do it again, so you don't think about it. But that goes for life in general. You're only dealing with the knowledge you have at that time.”
“I am not a religious girl, but I would've prayed to the Devil, if I believed he'd have helped me." Siobhan Everdeen”
Source: Silent Hope: Would You be Missed?
“I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399)”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules
“I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.”
“I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets. The war took care of that for me. You know, I was brought up strictly kosher, but I - it made no sense to me. It made no sense to me what was happening. So nothing of it means anything to me. Nothing. Except these few little trivial things that are related to being Jewish. ... You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.”
“I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner”
“I am not a representative of anything. When art historians or critics or the public put somebody in a drawer like this, it has a tranquilizing, paralyzing effect. Artists are individuals. They have ideas, and the conventions for one's self as an individual are not for a group. There are always those who follow the group, but they belong in the margins. I refuse to be placed within, or added to, one particular school.”
“I am not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it. I am one of the 22 million black victims of the Democrats, and one of the 22 million black victims of the Republicans, and one of the 22 million black victims of Americanism... You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocracy... If you go to jail, so what? If you're black, you were born in jail. If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south.”
“I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.”
“I am not a rock producer. I don't see that. I once turned down Guns N' Roses. I don't like shouting. I'm a melody guy. I love great melody.”
“I am not a rock star or a movie star; I'm a businessperson. I definitely know who my friends are. I'm much more open and trusting than, say, my daughter is.”
“I am not a rockstar,
I am a reformer.
Rockstars get compromised,
Uncompromise is my character.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“I am not a role model.”
“I am not a romantic leading man anymore so I don't need to nurture that public image anymore. I can talk about it now because I'm not afraid anymore . . . When I grew up, being gay, being sissy or anything like that, was verboten. I disliked myself intensely and feared this part of myself intensely, and had to hide it and became 'Perfect Richard, All-American Boy' as a place to hide.”
“I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine. An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather. A game of cards. Time for idle talk. Preparing a meal together.”
“I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.”
“I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.”
Source: Selected Poems: 1965-1975
“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”
“I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.”
“I am not a sample size, and I am okay with that. I'm good with who I am. I like to accentuate the positive. My waist is something I love to show off. I'm also happy that more and more women are embracing who they are, because everybody's different. You don't have to be a size 0 to be pretty. You just have to be comfortable with who you are.”
“I am not a scholar, but for the imaginative reader there can be discoveries, connections between books, that explode the day and one’s heart and the long years that have lead to the moment.”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.”
“I am not a scientist, but I don't need to be.”