I Quotes
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“I never compare myself to anybody. I don't look at my accomplishments compared to anyone. I'm happy with what I've accomplished in boxing.”
“I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.”
“I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.”
“I never complain that I'm tired, because I know as soon as I get a good nine hours' sleep, I'm cool.”
“I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.”
“I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.”
“I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.”
“I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.”
“I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.”
“I never confuse the cost of something with its value”
Source: The Liveship Traders Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Ship of Magic, Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny
“I never confused what I had with what I was.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.”
“I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.”
“I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.”
“I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.”
“I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.”
“I never consciously set out to talk about taboos or anything like that.”
“I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be.”
“I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be...I never tried to imitate anybody, but when you love somebody's music, you're influenced...I really don't know how I developed my sound, but it comes from a combination of my musical conception and no doubt the basic shape of the oral cavity.”
“I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid.”
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803
“I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.”
“I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success.”
“I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.”
“I never considered my dreams wasted energy; they were invariably linked to some form of action. When I dreamed about having a lemonade stand, for example, it wasn't long before I set up a lemonade stand.”
Source: Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
“I never considered myself a cowboy, because I wasn`t. But I guess when I got into cowboy gear I looked enough like one to convince people that I was.”
“I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.”
“I never considered myself a good photographer. I still don't. I thought of myself as a hard worker. My camera was a sponge and I had an instinct that athletes have - anticipation. Photography really represents an enormous amount of anticipation - understanding what might be there the next moment and being prepared for it.”
“I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.”
“I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.”
Source: Foundation's Edge
“I never considered myself a performance artist.”
“I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.”
“I never considered myself a trainer, I considered myself a teacher.”
“I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.”
“I never considered myself an artist. I aspire to be an artist, but I never thought I had the depth or substance or gift to be an artist. I do think I have some talent, but it doesn't go as far as being an artist.”
“I never considered myself more able than anybody because I had problems just like anybody else. When I practiced, I solved problems, like any of my fellow students. I looked at my own work, and looked ahead, with blinders, almost.”
“I never considered myself part of rock 'n' roll. My stuff was more adult. It was more difficult for teenagers to relate to; my stuff was filled with more despair than anything you'd associate with rock 'n' roll. Since I couldn't see people dancing, I didn't write jitterbugs or twists. I wrote rhythms that moved me. My style requires pure heart singing.”
“I never considered myself to be essentially different from anyone else. Although I knew I was.”
“I never considered myself to be special. If anything, I considered myself to be awkward, and still do sometimes.”
“I never considered the move to Washington to be a permanent move.”
“I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.”
“I never contemplated. I just went in there and did my acting. I never thought, "What's the character actually feeling here? What's he trying to get across?" And never looked at it from that classically trained actor's point of view.”
“I never cook at home. After 15 hours at work, I don't have much of a desire to cook at home. I do eat at home, but it's always something simple. Raw nuts. Almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts--these are marvelous products. I am, however, the type that likes to go out to eat a lot. I never tire of it.”
“I never cooked at home - my father was the chef.”
“I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.”
Source: The grand old man of Maine: selected letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914
“I never could be good when I was not happy.”
“I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes
“I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.”
Source: Three European plays: Ring round the moon [by] Jean Anouilh, The queen and the rebels [by] Ugo Betti, In camera [by] Jean-Paul Sartre
“I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.”
“I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.”