I Quotes
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“I you're writing memoir, but it even comes up in fiction. People just assume that you're writing thinly veiled autobiography. And particularly, I think, for people of color, our work is always seen as kind of anthropological artifact regardless. So, there's always going to be that assumption, but even more so in a memoir because often the names aren't even changed. It is easier to verify.”
“I za kraj, još jedna bitna razlika između revnosnog i fanatičnog čoveka: revnostan čovek celog života preobražava sebe, fanatičan - umesto ovakvog doživotnog, nesumnjivo trudnog napora - hoće da preobrazi druge.”
Source: 50 pitanja i 50 odgovora iz hrišćansko-psihoterapeutske prakse
“I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“I zoomed in on the shoe department like a blonde homing pigeon. Shoes, shoes everywhere! Ah, sweet shoes. I truly think you can take the measure of a civilization by looking at its footwear.”
Source: Undead and Unemployed: A Queen Betsy Novel
“I сan't imagine how ROBOCOP could be PG-13.”
“I — I mean," Kate stumbled on, "that with us there is a time past and time present, and time future, and with your gods perhaps there is time forever; but God in Himself has the whole of it, all times at once. It would be true to say that He came into our world and died here, in a time and a place; but it would also be true to say that in His eternity it is always That Place and That Time — here — and at this moment — and the power He had then, He can give to us now, as much as He did to those who saw and touched Him when He was alive on the earth.”
Source: The Perilous Gard
“I … noticed something striking about my growing cast of deniers. None of them were deniers.”
Source: The Deniers: The World-renowned Scientists who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud and Those who are Too Fearful to Do So
“I" cannot reach fulfillment without "thou." The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean.”
“I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism, or any other ism, when a religioin is created on the subtle premise that God withholds his love and you must submit to the system to earn that love, I consider it the worst of corruptions... For centuries, the church has been telling us that if we want God to love us, we need to follow the rules. It's been far more important to focus on the sin problem than the love problem.”
“I"ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.”
“I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.”
“I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.”
“I' tired of old people being labeled as worthless,useless,toothless and sexless”
“I' ve got quite narrow feet and they are size 12. I would sometimes get blisters when I was younger but fortunately I don t have much trouble with my feet nowadays.”
“I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.”
Source: Al Pacino
“I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an end”
“I'd accepted a while ago that there were too many reasons for me to even think about him romantically anymore. Every once in a while, I slipped a little and kind of wished he would too. It'd have been nice to know that he still wanted me, that I still drove him crazy. Studying him now, I realized he might not ever slip because I didn't drive him crazy anymore. It was a depressing thought.”
Source: Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel
“I'd accomplished everything I had set out to do - winning the French and Australian Opens, the Olympic gold medal and the Davis Cup. So I said to myself: 'Why don't you try another year and see if you can enjoy your tennis like you did once?' And I've been doing it.”
“I'd actually argue forging a company is far more harder than forging a product”
“I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.”
“I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion.”
“I'd actually rather have a talk show in Australia than even America; I hope I do end up with a talk show.”
“I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.”
“I'd address his way of trying to discourage Ian later. After all, he could have come up with something other than saying I was a whiny, smelly, trumpet-snoring bad lay.”
“I'd advise all aspiring game designers not to aim for money when developing a game, because unfortunately it is very rare for game designers to be able to earn a living by developing analog games.”
“I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry.”
“I'd advise you to visit New Orleans before you pass away. I really would. Because if you die without seeing New Orleans, you wasted half your life.”
“I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.”
“I'd almost prefer [Richard] Nixon. I'd say [Bill] Clinton is every bit as corrupt as Nixon, but a lot smoother.”
“I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children. And tell them, look, no matter what, you must have hope. You must. When I invoke Camus, who said when there is no hope, you must invent hope. . .hope is something that is not what God gives us. It's like peace. It's a gift that one can give to one another. Only another person can push me to despair. And only another person can push me to hope. Its my choice.”
“I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other.”
Source: The Gods Arrive
“I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?”
“I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.”
“I'd already put on a bit of weight before I got pregnant.”
“I'd already rehearsed it [ Don't Kill It script ] for the first time it was supposed to happen and the second time. That was a blessing in disguise because the character [Jebediah Woodley] grew a little bit in me.”
“I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.”
“I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects. So Peter's known that I've been heading towards directing for a long time. But I always thought my first outing would be a couple of people and a digital camera in the back streets of London somewhere!”
“I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“I'd also hope that my liberal friends, who find in this pope a critic of what they're pleased to call "culture-warrior" Catholics, will read carefully, and ponder even more carefully, what Pope Francis had to say about the "ideological colonization" implicit in Western decadence when he was giving robust pro-life, pro-family talks in the Philippines.”
“I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.”
“I'd also like us to encourage people to gang rush shooters, rather than following their instincts to hide; if we drilled it into young people that the correct thing to do is for everyone to instantly run at the guy with the gun, these sorts of mass shootings would be less deadly, because even a guy with a very powerful weapon can be brought down by 8-12 unarmed bodies piling on him at once.”
“I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people.”
“I'd also remind people, if I were running for Presidency, that a long-term problem facing the budget is Social Security and Medicare.”
“I'd also take any acting job...well, not any acting job, that's not true. I'd take a cool acting job.”
“I'd also talk about the period and of course all the different gender things that people might feel that they are. I'd be a terrible teacher because of what I don't know about that.”
“I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her.”
“I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences could pull broken bits together.”
Source: Find Me
“I'd always ask my grandma, who was so, so smart, why she didn't work, and she would explain that her parents didn't approve of her working after she had children. She didn't feel like she had choices.”
“I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.”
Source: The Turtle Diary
“I'd always been a fan growing up, and in high school, I was really into Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen.”