“I definitely look back at certain moments and don't think I look good...but I know why! I didn't have a hair stylist, I did all my own makeup, and I was going to the local fabric store for all of my outfits.” ThinkingKnowsLooksMomentsCertainMy OwnHairStoresLocalsMakeupFabricOutfitsStylistHair Stylist Author:Gwen Stefani
“I didn't know the language of my own wisdom. I wanted to be loved and after all the various relationships I went through, I finally realized I am love. I carry love.” KnowsWantedLanguageMy OwnVariousWanted To Be Loved Author:Mark Nepo
“Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.” PeopleKnowsWritingSometimesCharacterMy OwnMinesVersionsMinorsMy Own LifeMinor Characters Author:Cassandra Clare
“With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it. Everything I write is the truth and I know that I would win.” KnowsWritingEndsWinningMy OwnTvsCourtPreparedMemoirExpectingTruthful Author:Augusten Burroughs
“I tend to share whatever I know in general. I've never been a person to horde information for the sake of my own skin, you know what I mean? Not share so somebody doesn't take your job, I've never had that kind of insecurity. I also had a management company, too, so we were always one of those companies that shared information with our artists. Whatever they wanted to know, as much as they wanted to know, they could know.” KnowsKindMeanPersonsWantedJobsArtistMy OwnCompanyShareInformationSkinsManagementSakeInsecurityHorde Author:Queen Latifah
“I have a basic theorem as to how I do my jokes. Growing up, I knew when to cross the line and when not to cross the line. It's the same with my comedy. I know what my audience will take and how much they won't take. I can't give you a formula for it. It's my own personal formula inside my head. Somebody else's might be different.” KnowsGivingI CanDifferentMightLinesMy OwnAudienceGrowing UpComedyGrowingJokesCrossesFormulasTheorems Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“I've written a bunch of stuff that no one's ever heard, and I don't know if they ever will. I'm just doing it for my own edification.” IfsKnowsStuffMy OwnWrittenHeardBunchEdification Author:Billy Joel
“I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.” KnowsArtMy OwnKnow HowAreasVery GoodEvaluate Author:Sydney Pollack
“I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.” PeopleKnowsChildrenSufferingCultureGivenParentMy OwnDutyDeserveTreatedAfrican AmericanGrandparentHonoredAmerican CultureVery DeepParents And GrandparentsAfrican American Culture Author:Alice Walker
“I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.” KnowsWritingWellsMeanI CanEndsMy OwnFictionAuthorityDetailsSurfaceMy Own Life Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Four years ago on this very day I tried to take my own life. And I said, "Zach, do it in front of your co-workers and end the misery." I don't know how many of you ever tried to jump off of a Pizza Hut, but you'll just get a sprained ankle out of the deal. Then you'll have to go back inside, and serve crazy bread.” KnowsYearsSaidEndsHumorFunnyMy OwnDealsKnow HowFourCrazyFrontsYears AgoMiseryWorkersBreadFour YearsPizzaMy Own LifeAnklesHutsCo Worker Author:Zach Galifianakis
“I'm active on Facebook and Twitter professionally, then personally I have my own Facebook account, but nobody knows my name or anything. I don't use it to connect with my friends, but I love to play on it.” KnowsPlayUseNamesMy OwnMy FriendsAccountsActiveNobody Knows Author:Glenda Bailey
“When I first came into international running, most runners did about 60-70 miles or running a week. I guess that is still the standard except for Kenya and Ethiopia. I was doing 150-250 a week and some weeks as high as 350. It was unheard of! But, because I did not have access to what was possible and standard, I had to set my own possibilities and standards. I was just lucky enough to be out of the loop and not know.” KnowsFirstsStillsEnoughRunningMy OwnWeekPossibilityLuckyStandardsInternationalAccessMilesRunnersKenyaLoopsUnheardEthiopia Author:Gerry Lindgren
“At 55 I said the probability is I won't have another relationship. I just didn't want to start another family. Between my own bizarre criteria and taste and the fact that I'm not available for many things I thought it was unlikely. Once you know the science about it, I don't think anybody should consider being committed to a real eternal relationship until you're through something called the infatuation circle.” ThinkingKnowsWantShouldSaidRealFactsMy OwnTasteEternalCommittedAvailableCirclesProbabilityBizarreInfatuationUnlikelyCriteria Author:Jack Nicholson
“I'm so sick of my own music that I don't know if I can edit another video, which involves hundreds of hours of listening to your own song again and again and again. It becomes so grating after a while.” IfsKnowsI CanSongHoursMy OwnListeningSickVideoAgain And AgainEditsSo Sick Author:Grimes
“I think we're skating on surfaces. I know it in my own life - and I think that is where this frustration comes in. It's not the place we want to be, but it's the place our society requires that we be. There is no fulfillment there. So we become numbed, we become drugged, we become less than we are. And I think that we know that.” ThinkingKnowsWantMy OwnSurfaceFulfillmentFrustrationOur SocietyMy Own LifeSkating Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“I know Christianity; and I know I have to move away from it and approach Jesus Christ on my own. I have to talk to Him directly and seek His guidance and protection as I seek to make my commitment to Him central to my life.” KnowsMovingJesusChristMy OwnChristianityApproachCommitmentJesus ChristProtectionGuidance Author:Anne Rice
“I'm in a really good place. I used to be a right worrier, but being in a settled relationship has made a massive difference. I was on my own for three years before meeting David. I'm very happy with him, he's a fantastic man. But you never know what's around the corner, so you just hope for the best.” KnowsMenYearsMadeUsedThreeDifferencesMy OwnMeetingsCornersUsed To BeFantasticMassiveThree YearsVery HappyAround The CornerGood PlaceHoping For The BestHappy With Him Author:Anna Friel
“God has created me to do him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission; I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.” IfsKnowsMayPersonsNextWorkMy OwnCallingAngelConnectionsCommittedMissionsChainsThis LifeLinksPreacherCommandmentsDefiniteGreat Work Author:John Henry Newman
“I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.” KnowsCausesMy OwnMy FriendsStatementsMotiveMy Own Life Author:Alex Campbell
“I don't really care what people think, ... I just do my own thing. ... I like being loud and letting people know I'm there.” PeopleThinkingKnowsCareMy OwnLoud Author:James Brown
“So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.” KnowsWritingBookCountrySongStuffMy OwnWesternChordsUkuleleCountry Western Author:John Fahey
“It made me very sad, that question. Sad and defeated. Because I knew she knew why I was thinking about that woman-I was thinking about my own tendencies toward aloneness and I thought I could end up like that woman, with a bird perhaps, or a dog-probably a dog, I know birds are supposed to make good pets but I think there's something creepy about them-but alone with a life that didn't touch or overlap with anyone else's, a sort of hermetically sealed life.” ThinkingKnowsMadeEndsMy OwnDogBirdTendenciesPetDefeatedCreepyVery Sad Book:Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel Source: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel
“It occurs to me one evening as I'm feeding the birds that all I did was put two birds in the aviary, some food and water and nothing else and now there are six of them. I know this is perfectly natural, it's one of the things life is all about, but to have it happen in my bedroom, under my own eyes, is magic.” KnowsTwoHappensEyeLife IsWaterNaturalMy OwnMagicSixBirdEveningBedroomFeedingPerfectly NaturalTwo Birds Book:Birdy Source: Birdy
“I believe that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.” KnowsBelievePlayI BelieveBornMy OwnExistenceConsciousnessQualityCreativityConstantSpontaneity Book:Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul Source: Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul
“I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.” KnowsYearsSongFoundSoundMy OwnWrittenHeardWorstDecidedVillageOld You Author:Wyclef Jean
“I'm very headstrong and I know what I want from life. I listen to peoples' opinions, but a lot of the time I'll trust my own instincts. I'm also really clumsy, so I'm always getting hurt.” KnowsWantHurtMy OwnOpinionInstinctClumsyGetting HurtHeadstrong Author:Ashley Tisdale
“It's hard to not get typed in Hollywood. They really want to type you. I'm trying to avoid that, because I want to do a lot of things. I know what I'm capable of. I forgive them because they don't know. They haven't seen me play Hamlet. They're not going to cast me as an English aristocrat. I'm going to have to prove that on my own. That's okay. That's what you have to fight for if you want to be an artist.” IfsKnowsWantTryingHardPlayArtistFightingMy OwnHavensTypeProveCapableOkayHollywoodForgivingCasts Author:Sam Rockwell
“I would eventually like to write and star in my own stuff. I think I have a good comedic sense, so I'd like to follow that road. I don't know what the future holds, but whatever I do, I'll commit.” ThinkingKnowsWritingStarsStuffMy OwnCommitComedic Author:Nick Swardson
“My spirituality is more private. I've got my own personal relationship with god. I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - all of the tough times - and I'm still at the top of my game. With all the rumors and all the hate, I'm still strong, still happy, still blessed.” KnowsStillsAbleHateSpiritualityGamesStrongMy OwnToughBlessedRumorTough TimesRelationship With GodPersonal RelationshipsPersonal Relationship With God Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
“The human animal is a fascinating beast. Watching people and trying to learn how and why they do things, and to engage in the somewhat futile attempt to explain them...it's my reason for living I guess...to ask 'why?'. I don't know what else to do with myself. In some strange way it's probably an attempt to understand myself and my own relationship to the world.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayTryingHumansReasonAsksMy OwnAnimalStrangeBeastFascinatingHuman Animal Author:Andrew Neel
“I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.” KnowsWritingFirstsChildrenBookWould BeMy OwnRoomsFictionDoorsPrivacyFragile Author:Marge Piercy
“I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.” KnowsWellsBodyReadingLanguageMy OwnMinesCatCommunicateSubtleSignalsBody LanguageAdept Author:Marge Piercy
“I'm really thankful to have my own record label. I've always looked up to people like Madonna when she launched Maverick Records. Even Jay Z and Sean "Puffy" Combs, who's a mentor and also gave me a shot when I was an independent artist in Atlanta. He came to my show, and he said, "I just want people to know about you."” PeopleKnowsWantSaidShowsArtistMy OwnRecordsShotsIndependentLabelsMentorAtlantaSeanRecord LabelsCombsMaverick Author:Janelle Monae
“After watching a couple of live performances of bands like Nirvana, I was really excited and inspired by how raw and powerful it was. I wanted to at least aim in that direction with the guitar and do my own version of it. I know it doesn't really sound like that on the other end, but I wanted guitar, heavy rhythms, and singing to be the stamp of the whole thing.” KnowsEndsWholeWantedSoundMy OwnPowerfulCoupleBandSingingPerformancesAimInspiredGuitarExcitedHeavyVersionsRhythmStampsLive Performance Author:Panda Bear