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" Quotes and Sayings About self

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Creature Himself Impossible Man
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Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

Form A Self-Sacrifice Dissipation
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Being an actress, I find myself people-watching and I can be quite shy.

Actress Being Find I Can
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The difficulty for me is that I'm interested in so many different things. I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things.

Could Different Different Things Difficulty
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I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.

Able Cut Dress Fashion
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In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described as a sex symbol myself.

Actor Fancy Find Gorgeous
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I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

Am Avoid Become Becoming
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One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Does Eye Human Meet
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'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

Answer Billionaire Brains Brainy
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I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

Act Could Different DifferentThings
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I don't consider myself to be a celebrity. I don't fit that mould.
Celebrity Consider Fit Mould
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Well, what do you owe yourself? Do you dare take time out to listen to the grass grow, or can you even afford the expense of getting far enough away from life's daily cacophony to hear it grow if you took the time?

Cacophony Enough Grass Life
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Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.

Events Way Sometimes
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You are a leader of the past, of now and of the future; you will rise again; I wish you the best you wish yourself.

Past Rise Best Wish
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

About Creativity Nemy Everything
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You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.

Come Fortunate Know Lucky
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I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Admit Back Beyond Happened Just
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However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.

Alone Am Ashamed Come
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Against Barriers Built Find
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I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.

Able Am Angry Become
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What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.

Am Christian I Am Jew
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Widow. The word consumes itself.
Consumes Itself Widow Word
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Being Fellow Fellow Men Former
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Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Always Best Destroy Discouraged
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Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Destroy Hate Them Then
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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Always Could Day Except
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In Sub Saharan Africa, a disciplined man is seen as wicked. A man with low self esteem is seen as humble. A confident man with adequate self esteem is seen as proud. A friendly girl is considered a flirt or lose.

Disciplined Humble Proud Confident
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If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

American Character Handout Impoverished
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You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Become Being Eligible Opponents
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If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.

Alone Am Continually Creative
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You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

About Anger Angry Get
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I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

Brought Down Impeached Myself
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The shadows we see on others and complain about, were cast on them by our own selves. Go to your friend and you will notice that your shadow falls on them. In truth, we see the world not as it is, but as we are. Change yourself. Change your world

Shadows Complain Truth Friend
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A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

Cannot Feels He Help
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I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Cannot Control Himself Man
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Ask Fair Not Fair Others
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Anyone Become Else Even
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If a friend asks a favor, you should grant it if it is reasonable; if not, tell him plainly why you cannot: You will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

Any Ask Cannot Favor
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When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I'll still be fly.

About Being Being Happy Fly
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When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion.

Always Am Dare Fashion
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I pledge myself and the government to the rule of law, in which none shall be so above the law that they are not subject to its dictates, and none shall be so below it that they are not availed of its protection.

Law Rule Pledge Dictates
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Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

Building Challenge Development Equality
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

Easy Holding Feels Commit
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The giving of love is an education in itself.
Education Giving Itself Love
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Anyone Anyone Else Because Cannot
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Dont dominate people. They will rebel against you. Rather, dominate yourself and people will nominate you as their leader

Rebel Dominate Yourself Leader
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Honestly, I've been thinking lately about how boring I am. When I do get time to myself, I watch TV.

About Am Been Boring
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A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

Children Cracks Fill Flowers
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Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.

Belief Believe Beyond Force
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Luck Men Mention Presence
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