I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses…

My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired material, moral…

— Frederick Douglass

You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.

— Nicole Kidman

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.

— Jake Barton

Not one example of significant self-generation or self-organization can be found in the entire realm of nature… Without causation, nothing happens and without organization…

— Hugh Ross

A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of…

— Kevin Kelly

Every time you feel entitled, you're making a mistake.

— Adena Friedman

I think there are times as believers when we feel entitled and that life shouldn't be hard. We live in this culture of convenience…

— Kari Jobe

One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I…

— John Maynard Keynes

I often wonder if my being a fairly small Asian woman with a high-pitched quietish voice plays a role in how often men feel…

— Jenny Zhang

You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with…

— John Leguizamo

Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Don’t feel entitled to anything you don’t sweat and struggle for”

— Marian Wright Edelman

“Entitlement closes in upon itself in a kind of narcissistic bubble, distorting anything and everything in such a way as to reinforce itself. People…

— Mark Manson

Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed…

— William A. Henry III

I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.

— Neal Stephenson