I Quotes
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“I am not the first to note the vast differences between the Wall Street protesters and the tea partiers. To name three: The tea partiers have jobs, showers and a point.”
“I am not the first to suggest that anthropology arose in Western thought in an inauspicious period, one characterized by colonialism and so-called racial science. But I seem to be more or less alone in my conviction that, in all its primitivity, this anthropology continues to color the ways in which we conceive of human nature.”
“I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.”
“I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone.”
“I am not the girl the guy gets at the end of the movie. I am not a fantasy. If you want me, earn me.”
“I am not the heroine of this story.
And I'm not trying to be cute. It's the truth. I'm diagnosed borderline and seriously fucked-up. I hold grudges. I bottle my hate until it ferments into poison, and then I get high off the fumes. I'm completely dysfunctional and that's the way I like it, so don't expect a character arc where I finally find Redemption, Growth, and Change, or learn How to Forgive Myself and Others.”
Source: Black Iris
“I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.”
“I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.”
“I am not the Juliet to his Romeo.
I am not the lodestar around which he orbits.
I am not the trade wind by which he sets the course of his sails.
I am not essential or exceptional.
I was his Monday girl.
Shitty, really, since he was my whole damn week.”
Source: The Monday Girl
“I am not the kind of designer who is racing to the finish line, so while collaborations are important for our growth, each and every one has to be strategic and well-timed with what we have going on internally.”
“I am not the kind of girl that gets in trouble.”
“I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.”
“I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.”
“I am not the kind of person I want to be.”
Source: Dune: The Gateway Collection
“I am not the kind of person that wants to enforce my wants, likes, desires, on everybody else. I have no desire that everybody like what I like. I have no desire everybody say what I want to hear said. I have no desire everybody stop whatever they're doing and listen to what I have to say. I have no desire that everybody agree. No, that's not true. I do wish everybody agreed, but I'm not gonna sit around and force that on people.”
“I am not the kind of person who becomes so invested in a book or movie or television show that my interest becomes a hobby or intense obsession, one where I start to declare allegiances or otherwise demonstrate a serious level of commitment to something fictional I had no hand in creating.
Or, I didn't used to be that kind of person.
Let me be clear: Team Peeta. I cannot fathom how one could be on any other team. Gale? I can barely acknowledge him. Peeta, on the other hand, is everything. He frosts things and bakes bread and is unconditional and unwavering in his love, and also he is very, very strong. He can throw a sack of four, is what I'm saying. Peeta is a place of solace and hope, and he is a good kisser.”
“I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.”
“I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I’m just an entertainer.”
“I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.”
Source: The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes
“I am not the leader; I am a representative of the leader. The leader is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, whom we believe is very much alive, and is directing me from where he is.”
“I am not the least afraid to die”
Source: Autobiography and Selected Letters
“I am not the least bit religious, but at least I stick up for the good work of religion and the cascade of benefits that come from religion.”
“I am not the man I once was. I do not want to go back in time, to be the second son, the second man.”
“I am not the man I was when I failed — but I wouldn’t be the man I am without those failures. I didn’t evolve in spite of my darkness; I evolved because I confronted it, understood it, and refused to let it define me.”
Source: Beyond The Illusion : A journey into the unseen scars of love, trauma, and rebirth.
“I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“I am not the Messiah. I am a simple human being with the unlimited power of love and kindness.”
“I am not the monster who lives inside me”
Source: The Darkest Torment
“I am not the most annoying person to bring to a movie 'cause I basically hold it in and write about it later or tweet about it. The most annoying people to bring to movies, I think we all agree, are those who read the book first.”
“I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.”
“I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.”
“I am not the number or beautiful face on your black board as you want to give identity to me ! I am me . I am my identity .”
“I am not the one of us who has no heart.”
“I am not the one to put in a ‘category.’” -Charlena E. Jackson, Why are You Obsessed with My Race?”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“I am not the one who has to change the way I think or the way I act. They are.”
Source: The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One
“I am not the one who loves -
It's love that chooses me.”
“I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, you forbid delivery...”
“I am not the one you think I'm, but I'm the one you never thought I will ever become.”
“I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.”
“I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.”
Source: John Ploughman's Talks
“I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because there is no time to do anything else except to try and save your people.”
“I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.”
“I am not the person who is singing
I am the silent one inside. . . .
I am not my house, my car, my songs
They are only stops along my way. . . .”
“I am not the potter, nor the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay, does it depend on the value achieved intrinsic as much as the value of the clay as the wheel and master craftsmanship?”
Source: The Stand
“I am not the potter, not the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape attained as dependent upon the intrinsic worth of the clay as upon the wheel and the Master's skill?”
Source: The Stand
“I am not the president; instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.”
“I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.”
“I am not the #Prisoner of my #Past neither the #Slave for my #Future !!”
“I am not the representative of guerrilla in this hemisphere. I would say that the representative would be Fidel Castro which was the leader of our revolution and who had the most outstanding role in the direction of the revolutionary struggle and directs the strategy of the Cuban government.”
“I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.”
“I am not the river I am the net.”