I Quotes
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“I am not a scientist.”
“I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.”
“I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.”
“I am not a scoundrel, but I'm broadminded.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.”
“I am not a sect, I am the spirit of sectlessness - I am not a nation, I am the spirit of brotherhood that unifies all nations - I am not a religion, I am an addiction that dismantles all indoctrination. Thus speaks I - I the human - thus speaks the universal spirit of love, the universal spirit of oneness.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After a performance I am always hopeful that I will lure someone home for a ritual of a more personal nature.”
“I am not a sentimental person.”
“I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing.”
“I am not a sex symbol.”
“I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.”
“I am not a skin color. I contain all of humanity in my heart and my mind, my flesh, my blood and my bones, and I am proud of that fact. You should be, too.”
Source: The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action
“I am not a slow learner
I am a quick forgetter
such erasing makes one voracious
if you teach me something beautiful
I will name it quickly before it floats away”
Source: Calling a Wolf a Wolf
“I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.”
“I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.”
Source: I Know This Much Is True
“I am not a snob, because I know opulence doesn't stamp out ignorance and unhappiness.”
Source: Him
“I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.”
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.”
“I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.”
“I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.”
“I am not a speaker nor a preacher. I have no mission to change the world. I have no original words or teaching to give anyone. I reflect only what I've seen and heard - most ordinary, very common. I have no fascination for fresh ideas and activity. All enthusiasm for worldly endeavours and strivings have all but gone. For me, thoughts, words and deeds- the activities of life, are merely the utensils for serving out the 'prasad' of the Being-ness.”
“I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted. I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That's all there is to me.”
Source: Something Like An Autobiography
“I am not a special person. I am a regular person who does special things.”
“I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.”
“I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.”
Source: Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters
“I am not a spiritual guy, but all of a sudden I felt the need to really feel things.”
“I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America.”
“I am not a sports girl.”
“I am not a stage magician who does sleight of hand. I am a practitioner of - allow me to spell it - m-a-g-i-c-k. Magick. Occult knowledge and powers. Gained by way of tapping into the very wellspring of the universe.”
Source: The Spirit Phone
“I am not a star. At least, I don't consider myself a star.”
“I am not a star. I am an actor. I have been fighting for years to make people forget that I am just a pretty boy with a beautiful face. It's a hard fight, but I will win it. I want the public to realize that above all I am an actor, a very professional one who loves every minute of being in front of the camera. But one who becomes very miserable the instant the director shouts, 'Cut!'”
“I am not a statue that was carved and sculpted to be a perfect masterpiece. I am still being moulded, and forever it shall be so. I am ready to be remodelled in the hands of the world’s greatest sculptor, time.”
Source: Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety
“I am not a STEM advocate,
I am the STEM humanizer.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.”
Source: The Distant Hours: A Novel
“I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.”
“I am not a strict constructionalist, believing that we seal our eternal progress by what we do here. It is my belief that God will save all of His children that he can: and while, if we live unrighteously here, we shall not go to the other side in the same status, so to speak, as those who lived righteously; nevertheless, the unrighteous will have their chance, and in the eons of the eternities that are to follow, they, too, may climb to the destinies to which they who are righteous and serve God, have climbed to those eternities that are to come.”
“I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.”
“I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
with clean blood
and organized drawers.
I am the hurricane setting fire to the forests
at night when no one else is alive
or awake
however you choose to see it
and I live in my own flames
sometimes burning too bright and too wild
to make things last
or handle
myself or anyone else
and so I run.
run run run
far and wide
until my bones ache and lungs split
and it feels good.
Hear that people? It feels good
because I am the slave and ruler of my own body
and I wish to do with it exactly as I please”
Source: You're Doing Just Fine
“I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“I am not a supporter of buying a national team.”
“I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.”
“I am not a symbol of authority, I am a symbol of life.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
“I am not a teacher, I am a friend who cares.”
“I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.”
“I am not a technophobe and I am using the latest technology today, some 30-odd years later, and I am really enjoying what some of the new technologies can offer. But at the same time I am always aware that one can get bogged down in that technology and that it can become more than just a method. That's something that you have to be slightly careful of.”
“I am not a televangelist.”
“I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.”
Source: Letters
“I am not a terrorist, I am a theorist.”
“I am not a terrorist, I am just a person that tells the truth.”