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“I never wanted to do anything else but fight, when I was a kid. I never had any broader perspective of my own perspective. I didn't know anything about anything else. I just wanted to fight until I could fight no more, and then I wanted to own a bar and drink and tell war stories.”

Knows War Stories Kids Wanted Fighting My Own Perspective Drink Bars War Stories

Author:Mike Tyson

“I dont know how to add things to my own wikipedia page.”

Knows My Own Know How Pages Add Wikipedia

Author:Craig Ferguson

“It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.”

People Ifs Knows Humans May Whole My Own Conditions Loneliness Painting Communication Reflection Human Condition Lack Of Communication

Author:Edward Hopper

“To this very day, I do not know what he (Hitler) thought or knew or really wanted. I only knew my own thoughts and suspicions.”

Knows Wanted My Own Suspicion

Author:Alfred Jodl

“I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky. If you seriously want to know, listen to the music.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Speak My Own Specifics Tacky

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best.”

Knows Way Trying My Own Critics Being The Best Criticize

Author:Reggie Bush

“And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of-to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.”

Knows Believe Ends Hard Light Action Belief Waiting My Own Walks Emotion Responsibility Color Discipline Evidence Seasons Sight Winter Insight Absence My Time Spite Inaction Bud Birdsong

Author:Mark Buchanan

“Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am trying in my own small way to pipe the tune of grace. I do so because I know, more surely than I know anything, that any pang of healing or forgiveness or goodness I have ever felt comes solely from the grace of God.”

People Knows Way Trying Felt My Own Healing Grace Goodness Deserve Tunes Grace Of God Pipe

Book:What's So Amazing about Grace?

Source: What's So Amazing about Grace?

“If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.”

Ifs Knows Men Writing Book Enough Funny My Own Sarcasm Sarcastic

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Firsts Kids Poetry Speak Causes My Own Records Team Worst What If

Author:Andrea Gibson

“What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.”

Knows Men Inspirational Important Next My Own Known Generations Old Man Know Me Next Generation

Author:Christopher Lee

“I liked my teacher very much and after some years of mediation, I began to teach meditation, referring all things that I didn't know to my own teacher.”

Knows Years My Own Teach Teacher Meditation All Things Rama Referring Mediation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I sent out a casual and nonscientific poll of my own to a wide cast of acquaintances, friends and colleagues, I was surprised, but not really, to learn that maybe 60 percent claimed a belief in a God of some sort, including people I would have bet were unregenerate skeptics. Others just shrugged. They don't think about this stuff. It doesn't matter to them. They can't know, they won't beat themselves up trying to know and for that matter they don't care if their kids believe or not.”

“I know how to choke. Given even a splinter-thin opportunity to let my side down and destroy my own score, I will seize it. Not only does ice water not run through my veins, but what runs there has a boiling point lower than body temperature.”

Knows Doe Body Running Opportunity Given Sides Water My Own Know How Down And Golf Ice Score Veins Temperature Choke Boiling Splinters Body Temperature Ice Water Boiling Point

Author:John Updike

“Even when I'm writing in character I'm normally still writing about things I know or things that have happened to me or using that character to start an exploration of my own consciousness. Really though, any character that you can examine is just an examination of a part of your own consciousness.”

Knows Writing Stills Character My Own Consciousness Happened Exploration Examination

Author:Karen Walker

“If I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary's love”

Ifs Knows Names My Own Highest Calvary

Book:If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?

Source: If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?

“For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple of years younger than Ellis; indeed, for reasons too complicated to explain here, I was nearly drafted into the US army in 1965. I know many Americans of my own age and, as much to the point, my own class - journalists, publishers, lawyers. And I don't think I know one who served in Vietnam.”

Thinking Knows Years Reason Age My Own Class Generations Special Couple Army Complicated Lawyer Educated Journalist Vietnam Publishers Englishmen Hang Ups Us Army

Author:Geoffrey Wheatcroft

“I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.”

“I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations.”

Knows Years Persons Social Born My Own Know How Conversation Moved Shy Awkwardness Few Friends Shy Person Copenhagen Bangalore Social Awkwardness

Author:Deepika Padukone

“Im a bit insane when it comes to doing my own stunts and getting down and dirty. Its fun, you know? Its things I wouldnt normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.”

People Knows Real Fun Bits My Own Interesting Beats Gun Down And Real Life Insane Dirty

Author:Katee Sackhoff

“People do make assumptions about models. That's their issue, not mine. It doesn't bother me because I'm comfortable enough in my own skin - I know who I am.”

People Knows Enough My Own Issues Mines Comfortable Models Skins Who I Am Bother Assumption

Author:Lily Cole

“One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and see those sentences rising up... and... think, 'Someday maybe I can write like that....' It was like a dream of possibilities for my own self. And maybe I began to know that there was no other way for the sentence... to... arouse the same feeling. The someone writing whose words were rising from the typewriter became like a mentor for me.... You shouldn't do it more than a few times because you must get on with your own work.”

Thinking Knows Way Writing I Can Book Self Feelings Dream Beautiful Moving My Own One Thing Possibility Type Sentences Rising Someday Mentor Paragraph Typewriters Great Writers Rising Up

Author:Gina Berriault

“My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so - if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn't have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age.”

Ifs Knows Needs I Can Book Age Young My Own Written Ashamed Privacy

Book:Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind letters, 1936-1949

Source: Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind letters, 1936-1949

“I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.”

Knows Humans My Own Human Beings Musician Weakness Singers

Author:Amy Grant

“There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.”

People Knows Trying May Left My Own Photography Photographer Unsaid

Author:Garry Winogrand

“I know that sounds cliché, but mostly from my own experiences and things I see around me. We're all human beings, and a lot of the things I write about are pretty universal things.”

Knows Writing Humans Sound My Own Human Beings Universal

Author:Joan Jett

“This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.”

Knows Giving Littles Dream America Names My Own Pieces Land Give Me Towns Popcorn Little Towns

Book:The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life

Source: The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life

“I have my own unique road that has had many exciting ups and heart-breaking downs, but one thing I know is that my journey is not over and the best is yet to come.”

Knows Heart My Own One Thing Journey Unique Exciting My Journey Heart Breaking Best Is Yet To Come

Author:Ryan Hall

“I will use a form of punctuation of my own, which will be something like this - when one is beginning he takes a long breath, for this use a capital. When he stops for breath, a comma, and when it is all gone, a period. Don't know the use of a semi-colon, but expect it is when one thinks he is out of breath and isn't.”

Thinking Knows Long Use Form My Own Gone Periods Breaths Punctuation

Book:The Life of an Ordinary Woman

Source: The Life of an Ordinary Woman

“I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.”

Ifs Knows Feels My Own Records Flaws

Author:Eminem

“I know how lucky I am. I never take it for granted. In this country [USA], anything can happen - anybody can be what they want to be. All I ever wanted was to be a good husband and father, a good chef, and to have my own restaurant. And the celebrity was never expected. Wouldn't have even dared dream of it. And here I am. So anyone's dreams can come true. And I'm very, very grateful for everything that's come my way. I thank everyone who enjoys what I do.”

“I have a job to do, I have a wife and child to take care of. So I don't pay attention to things that I don't know anything about. I've got my own situation to deal with.”

Knows Children Care Jobs My Own Deals Pay Attention Situation Wife Take Care Pay Attention

Author:Scott Baio

“I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, "I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario."”

Thinking Knows Trying Littles Made My Own Brain Too Much Research Daughter Hypocrite Wasted Time Rotting Mario

Author:Ernest Cline

“I know I can only do as much as I can do... Although I have so many ideas of my own, I'm still very interested in helping to cultivate and encourage some promising new artists. But there are a lot of people and, unfortunately, a very small window.”

People Knows I Can Ideas Helping Artist Can Do My Own Window New Artists

Author:Tyler Perry

“I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. So what I know about writing, I know from my own instincts, and whatever the narrative voice is in my own head.”

Knows World Writing Has Beens School Voice My Own College Majors Training Instinct Medical Backgrounds Narrative Biology Formal Medical School Narrative Voice

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“I was in my late thirties and decided my intention in life had nothing to do with the acquiring of material things, but rather it was now my intention to experience the evolution of my own soul and to grow spiritually. I wanted to come to know the highest truths of life and to express those truths in action, through myself. I wanted to become the grandest version of the greatest idea I ever held about who I am in regards to my relationship with God.”

Knows Ideas Soul Action Wanted Grows My Own Materials Evolution Late Highest Decided Regard Intention Who I Am Versions Truth Of Life Relationship With God Material Things

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“When I was younger, I didn’t know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things when I was choosing projects, because one of the biggest creative decisions that an actor can make in the film business is what you will work on.”

Knows Should Film Actors Voice My Own Decision Creative Projects Artistic Just Listen

Author:James Franco

“You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.”

Knows Actors Imagination My Own Always Working

Author:Charles Keating, Jr.

“I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.”

Knows Way Feels Years Age Felt My Own Know How Thousand Ten Thousand Years

Book:Criss Cross

Source: Criss Cross

“I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.”

Knows My Own Bases Presses Damage Call Me Publicists Damage Control

Author:Megan Fox

“By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the front yard and all over the neighborhood, so, you know, I was definitely a lifer even back when I was 10.”

Knows Play My Own Company Fronts Theater Neighborhood Twelve Yards Back When Backyards

Author:Carrie Preston

“People don't know how heavily involved I am in my own career. I'm on 15 to 25 conference calls every few days strategizing with my team. I think a lot of artists sit back and have it done for them. Sometimes as women in the industry - if you're sexy or like doing sexy things - some people subconsciously negate your brain. They think you're stupid.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Sometimes Done Artist My Own Brain Careers Know How Team Stupid Industry Involved Sexy Conferences You Re Stupid Conference Calls

Author:Nicki Minaj

“The thrill in fashion for me is taking a risk and daring myself to make it work. Even when I go shopping, I always buy something twisted and I know I'm going to have to figure out somehow to pull it off and make it my own.”

Knows My Own Risk Fashion Figures Shopping Daring Thrill Twisted

Author:Rihanna

“I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isnt always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.”

Knows Way Giving Should Children Two Parent My Own Son Should Have Divorce Backgrounds Best Way Therapy My Son Stable Family Life

Author:Regina King

“I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.”

People Ifs Knows I Can My Own Cutting Inner Strength Blank Caves

Author:Charlotte Rampling

“My conceptual framework, which basically emphasizes the importance of misconceptions, makes me extremely critical of my own decisions. I know that I am bound to be wrong, and therefore am more likely to correct my own mistakes.”

Knows My Own Decision Mistake Importance Bounds Critical Framework Misconception Conceptual Framework

Author:George Soros

“I was on my own, living in Los Angeles, and I didn't know my way around, so I thought I'd walk everywhere. Well, that certainly got me noticed. Any woman who walks any distance at all is automatically regarded as a hooker!”

Knows Way Wells My Own Walks Distance My Way Los Angeles

Author:Ashley Jensen

“What I use from my own life is not the facts, it's the emotion. It's how I felt about something. It has nothing to do with facts at all. You can get those anywhere. It's the feelings of childhood that you need to know.”

Knows Needs Facts Use Feelings Life Is Literature Felt My Own Emotion Childhood My Own Life Children's Literature

Author:Judy Delton

“I know I can't dance. I am the worst dancer. I have no rhythm. I just do step-and-snap. I love it in the privacy of my own home and every once in a while at a club. But singing and dancing are my two greatest fears.”

Knows I Can Two Home My Own Steps Worst Singing Dancing Clubs Rhythm Dancer Privacy Snaps Greatest Fear Singing And Dancing

Author:Hope Solo

“I once knew it. I only hope that I can regain my own identity, once I decide that Perry Mason and myself have come to the parting of the road. Perry Mason has become a career for me . . . all I know is that I work, eat and sleep Perry Mason.”

Knows I Can My Own Sleep Careers Identity Parting Masons

Author:Raymond Burr

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