“If you're true to yourself, it doesn't matter where you record your music or where you say you're from. I am an artist from Texas, proud to be from Texas, but I play my own kind of music, my brand of country music.” IfsKindCountryMatterPlayArtistMy OwnRecordsProudBrandsTexasTrue To Yourself Author:Cody Johnson
“If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.” IfsFeelsSpecialProudMountainAchievementDifficultyFavorsBe ProudProud Of You Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“The fans are the end result of what we do. Sometimes I think we forget that those are the folks that mean it in this game. There's plenty of evidence to be found that you can have all the #1 records in the world, but if you really ain't touchin' them, you don't come home with gold records and platinum records. I'm very proud that we've only had one #1 record, but we've sold two and one half million!” IfsThinkingWorldMeanTwoEndsSometimesHomeFoundGamesForgetResultsHalfMillionsRecordsFansProudEvidenceGoldFolksPlentyComing HomeOne HalfEnd ResultsPlatinum Author:Aaron Tippin
“I grew up with very hands-on jobs. I was raised on a farm and taught to work hard. In this high-tech, high-speed society, somewhere along the line, we got the message that if we're not a brain surgeon or an astronaut, we really shouldn't be proud of ourselves.” IfsHardHandsJobsLinesBrainTaughtHard WorkGrewProudMessagesGrew UpRaisedSpeedFarmsBe ProudAstronautSurgeonsHigh SpeedBrain Surgeons Author:Aaron Tippin
“If we want to be proud of our country, if we want to be proud as Americans, if we want to be proud of our history, then we can't talk about the things that are inconsistent with pride, about which we can have no pride.” IfsWantCountryPrideProudOur CountryBe ProudInconsistent Author:Bryan Stevenson
“If you are a Scot living outside of Scotland but still in the UK, you are not allowed to vote in the referendum. This leaves over a million of loyal, proud Scots disenfranchised. It gives me the rage.” IfsGivingStillsMillionsProudVoteGive MeRageLoyalScotlandScotsReferendumsDisenfranchised Author:Damian Barr
“My wife says that I changed people's lives or ways of thinking and that I should always be proud and grateful. If I'm dismissive of what we do sometimes, a little bit, she's like, "I was a fan, you changed my life," or whatever. That's what she says.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayShouldLittlesSometimesBitsWifeFansChangedProudLittle BitGratefulMy WifeBe ProudWay Of ThinkingChanged My LifeYou Changed Author:Stephen Malkmus
“I can go wherever, to Kuala Lumpur or wherever, and if somebody will ask me where I'm from and I say I'm from Iceland, they say, "Yeah, Björk." And that makes me very proud, and that makes me proud to be an Icelandic artist.” IfsI CanArtistAsksProudYeahAsk MeIceland Author:Jon Gnarr
“You know, like, there's songs like "Valerie" and "Bang Bang Bang" that I was so proud of. And, you know, the level of success that they had - if they were little cult hits meant that, you know, I could sellout Webster Hall or Williamsburg Musical Hall or the El Rey theater in LA. Like, that was having made it to me. So the thought of having a number one song in my own career, like, never even registered.” IfsKnowsLittlesMadeSongMy OwnLevelsNumbersCareersProudTheaterMusicalMade ItHallsCultBangsWilliamsburg Author:Mark Ronson
“My thing is that if you don't really connect to something or see that it's going to be something you're going to be proud of, I wouldn't do it.” IfsProudBe Proud Author:Condola Rashad
“There are a number of ways you can find out if a restaurant is good or not: just the way it looks can give you all these visual clues: is it well maintained? Is the décor slapdash or does it look like someone put some effort into it? The employees - do they look disgruntled or proud to be serving what they're serving. Even better, when you walk into a place you can look at the food.” IfsWayGivingWellsLooksDoeWalksNumbersEffortProudRestaurantsVisualsEmployeeServingClueDisgruntled Author:Robert Sietsema
“Money comes and goes, but your inner feelings, your gut feelings, your manhood, your womanhood, whatever, that stays with you. That don't go anywhere. So you either proud of who you are and how you handle situations or you not. If you handle a situation wrong, you, it will haunt you.” IfsFeelingsSituationProudWho You AreHandleGutsWomanhoodManhoodComes And GoesGut FeelingsInner FeelingsMoney Comes And Goes Author:Ice Cube
“We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of our customs and our history and our traditions and who we are.” IfsPrideProudTraditionWho We AreCustomsLatinoVenezuelans Author:Juan Luis Guerra
“In terms of my own plans, I anticipate supporting one of the three, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio or John Kasich as our nominee. If they don't become the nominee, then I'm probably going to go to the voting booth and find someone else who's running as a conservative or perhaps just write in the name of someone I believe should become the president of the United States, who I could be proud of and who I believe is interested in balancing the budget, keeping America safe with a strong military, and is not willing to disparage fellow Americans, Mexican-Americans, Muslims, and so forth.” IfsShouldWritingBelieveStatesRunningAmericaThreeNamesStrongI BelievePresidentTermMy OwnUnitedUnited StatesPlansMilitaryWillingProudSafeFellowsConservativeBudgetsVotingBe ProudMexicanAnticipateCruzMarcosMexican American Author:Mitt Romney
“For them [LGBT group], language has to say exactly what it means. "Why aren't you proud of being gay?" they wanted to know. "Why are you so dark? Why are you so morbid? Why are you so sad? Don't you realize, we're all okay? Let's celebrate that fact." But that is not what writers do. We don't celebrate being "okay." If you want to be okay, take an aspirin.” IfsKnowsWantMeanFactsWantedLanguageRealizingDarkGroupsProudGayOkayCelebrateLgbtMorbidBeing GaySo SadAspirinBeing Okay Author:Richard Rodriguez
“When Gypsy was older, after she became Gypsy Rose Lee, I think she was both proud and slightly ashamed of her Seattle roots. She worked very hard to rid her voice of any trace of a local accent, cultivating an affected way of speaking that sounded as if she pinned the ends of her words.” IfsThinkingWayEndsHardVoiceProudRootsRoseLocalsAshamedAffectedAccentsGypsySeattleCultivating Author:Karen Abbott
“The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people and to meet more needs. But it actually destroys more of the resources that we need in order to meet those multiple needs. If we shift to an ecological perception, a diversity perception, we realize that some of the instruments of which we are very proud are actually extremely primitive for dealing with nature. To me that is the great lesson of ecological awareness at the turn of the millennium.” PeopleIfsNeedsHas BeensTodayOrderTurnsTermRealizingAwarenessProudLessonsDiversityPerceptionCreatingResourcesInstrumentsProductionsGoodsPrimitiveMultipleTechnologicalJustifiedEcologicalMillennium Author:Vandana Shiva
“I'm proud to be British but there is nothing patriotic about a lack of a plan as to what even would happen if we came out there's nothing patriotic about putting people's jobs at risk.” PeopleIfsHappensJobsPlansRiskProudBritishPatriotic Author:Ruth Davidson
“My mom [comes] to see my shows because she's so proud, but I'm talking about losing my virginity, my ex-wife and our sexual problems, and she's sitting in the front row smiling. I just go, "Mom, you can't sit in the front row, you can't smile. You have to go way in the back and dress in black. If I see you it's like you're breaking in when I'm having sex with my wife. It's just wrong."” IfsWayShowsProblemSexBlackTalkingWifeFrontsLike YouMomProudLosingSittingDressesMy MomMy WifeExesVirginityHaving SexEx Wife Author:John Leguizamo
“I'm proud of the fact that Marine Le Pen in France insults me and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands calls me his opponent. The way I see it is, if these people weren't attacking me, I would be doing something wrong.” PeopleIfsWayFactsWould BeProudFranceOpponentsInsultCall MePensMarineAttackingWilderNetherlands Author:Martin Schulz
“You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what they don't understand - and I like to tell this to writers - is that writing is like fishing. It's just like fishing. If you don't fish that often, you're not going to catch that many fish.” IfsKnowsFeelsWritingSometimesKnow HowProudFishesFishing Author:Sandra Cisneros
“If a bunch of Republicans are too stiff- necked, too proud, or in some cases too committed to the old order, after the election, I think they're going to be very sobered by their position.” IfsThinkingOrderCasesPositionProudRepublicanElectionCommittedBunch Author:Newt Gingrich
“I'm not sure I enjoyed doing [Gigi Does It]. I'm cool with just being an actor. If anything, I learned to be proud of being an actor.” IfsDoeActorsProudEnjoyedNot SureJust BeingBe Proud Author:David Krumholtz
“I wish that I had gotten a chance to do another season of [ Gigi Does It], to see if I could explore the story more, or the character more, and also find an easier way to make the show. We never got that opportunity. But I'll always be super, super proud of it.” IfsWayDoeCharacterStoriesShowsOpportunityWishChanceProudEasierSeasonsIf I Could Author:David Krumholtz
“I can see a movie and believe the story and characterization and stay proud of it. It doesn't change. Even if it's unappreciated, that doesn't mean it can't be appreciated in the future.” IfsBelieveMeanI CanStoriesProudAppreciatedCharacterization Author:Oliver Stone
“Alan Menken took me to his studio and we went through his trunks of songs and put together an album of stuff that people and stuff that people don't know. I'm very proud with the way it came out. I had no idea what it would be like to do an album and that process was grueling and tedious but it was very rewarding. I would do it again if I had the chance.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayIdeasWould BeTogetherSongStuffProcessChanceProudAlbumsStudiosNo IdeaTediousTrunks Author:Adam Jacobs
“If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.” IfsThinkingMenPrideProudLifetimeVacancyProud Man Author:Ernest Legouve
“If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and worldly honours to look to, our profession would not be one to be desired. But in its practice you will find it to be attended with peculiar privileges, second to none in intense interest and pure pleasures. It is our proud office to tend the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit, and our path, rightly followed, will be guided by unfettered truth and love unfeigned. In the pursuit of this noble and holy calling I wish you all God-speed.” IfsLooksScienceSpiritWishInterestPleasurePracticePathProudHolyCallingPureAnd LoveRewardsPrivilegeSpeedNobleProfessionPursuitIntenseImmortalHonourPeculiarWorldlyWish YouTruth And Love Author:Joseph Lister
“Everyone who asks something of God and does not receive it doubtless does not receive it for one of these reasons: either because they ask before the time, or they ask unworthily, or out of vainglory, or because if they received what they asked they would become proud or fall into negligence.” IfsInspirationalDoeReasonChristianFallAsksReligiousProudOrthodoxNegligence Author:John Climacus
“One of the things I'm proud of is my ability to change directions if something's not working.” IfsAbilityProudAbility To Change Author:Billy Lawrence
“I'm proud of myself. I could break and go get all this plastic surgery and get my nose fixed and get lipo or do whatever, but I haven't chosen to do that because I know I'm a great person. I'm pretty damn hot, if you ask me.” IfsKnowsPersonsAsksBreakHavensProudHotChosenAsk MeNosesDamnFixedPlasticSurgeryPlastic SurgeryGreat PersonProud Of Myself Author:Khloe Kardashian
“[Doing music] is time consuming, will drain you, and stress you out at times. But in the end if you love doing it, and you're putting out music you're proud of, it will never feel like work. It'll just feel like love.” IfsFeelsEndsProudMusic IsStressWorking ItConsumingDrainsLike LoveTime Consuming Author:Melanie Martinez
“Looking back, I'm proud of what I've been able to do, grateful for the fact that I really have very few, if almost zero, nightmare stories of being on sets and working with the wrong people.” PeopleIfsFactsStoriesAbleProudGratefulNightmareZeroLooking BackAlmost Zero Author:Tyler Hoechlin
“If California is any indicator, I'm proud that the public here saw right through it and registered in record numbers and voted in record numbers.” IfsNumbersRecordsSawsProudCaliforniaIndicators Author:Audie Cornish
“If you go down to Texas, people are real proud about and they rep Texas.” PeopleIfsRealProudTexas Author:Chamillionaire
“If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now.” IfsThinkingWorldShouldWellsAbleThis WorldProudRight NowWowBe ProudManicDepressive Author:Carrie Fisher
“I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.” IfsYearsBookPovertyProudTiredConstantHorribleAll TimeBrokeEmbarrassedDesperationHighwaysDownersBeing Broke Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.” IfsWantFeelsDoeBookMightActionMovingPrayerCommonOne ThingFansHugeProudStylist Author:John Darnielle
“If you want to be a proud person, then you want to avenge your loss. For me it was [Josean] Serra and [Joe] Hughes, and for Michael Bisping, Henderson is one of his losses - one of his most painful losses. So I understand why he wants to avenge it. As an athlete I understand.” IfsWantPersonsLossProudAthletePainfulYour LossHis LossProud Person Author:Georges St-Pierre
“My dad is probably the most proud person when it comes to me, and we have a great relationship. If people have a compliment about my character, they usually say they can tell I was raised right, and that's the truth.” PeopleIfsPersonsCharacterProudDadRaisedMy DadComplimentGreat RelationshipProud Person Author:Chance the Rapper
“I'm extraordinarily honored and proud when I am told that I am part of the Broadway community and part of the Broadway family. Because, Broadway is a family. And it doesn't matter if you did one show or if you did fifty shows.” IfsMatterShowsCommunityProudFiftyHonoredBroadway Author:Lorna Luft
“I'm proud to say you are not a racist or a bigot or anything like that if you say that the Netherlands, as Australia, is a culture based on Christianity, on Judaism, on humanism, and it should not, nor ever will become a society based on Islamic failures.” IfsShouldCultureChristianityProudHumanismIslamicAustraliaRacistJudaismBigotsNetherlands Author:Geert Wilders
“If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.” IfsHardChanceSimpleHard WorkProud Author:Bryan Cranston
“To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - [Thomas More] burning of heretics. It was well documented. And he was proud of it! The Brits love lost causes.” PeopleIfsWellsMadeLostCausesProudMade ItBurningHallsLost LoveHereticAstonishmentBritsLost Cause Author:Hilary Mantel
“I'm not proud of having been married -I've had five affairs, all of them real wingdings. I've enjoyed every goddamned minute of them, but sooner or later I've outgrown every one of them, and when I did I got fed up and threw them out. If they can't keep up with me, the hell with them.” IfsRealHellFiveMinutesProudMarriedAffairEnjoyedFedsSooner Or LaterFed Up Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“No one can believe I might have a brain. Because I'm really tall, I'm really blonde, I have big muscles, and kill people for a living. There you go. If anybody's going to be assumed to be stupid, it's me. I don't know what my IQ score is, but I did study for five years at college. And I'm proud of my chemical engineering degree. I haven't done anything with it, but it's a card up your sleeve for later in life. It's nice to have, just in case.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsBelieveDoneBigsMightBrainCasesStudyFiveNiceHavensStupidCollegeProudDegreesCardsMusclesFive YearsScoreTallChemicalsEngineeringSleevesBlondeLater In LifeChemical Engineering Author:Dolph Lundgren
“I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.” IfsTryingEmotionReaderProudTerrorFinestGross Author:Stephen King
“When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.” IfsHas BeensCitiesProudEssentialsBuiltFoundationEdgesMayorsDetroitBankruptcy Author:Ed Koch
“If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.” IfsWritingUseNamesPayProudBillsPens Author:Dean Koontz
“One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.” IfsChildrenHas BeensJobsThreeGoalProudDelightMy ChildrenPrincipalEmbarrassingSetting Goals Author:Hugh Laurie