My own Quotes · Page 70

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

— Iris DeMent

I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc

— David Brainerd

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

— Christian Bale

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

— Gary Cole

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

— Vanessa Paradis

My own idea of a $5,500 .45 auto is a used Volkswagon with a Glock 30 in the glove box...

— Massad Ayoob

For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.

— George Berkeley

I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.

— Christina Aguilera

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall…

— Anthony Storr

I always loved rapping ever since Snoop said "1-2-3-4," I was repeating lines, but I didn't start writing my own lyrics until…

— Fashawn

I played team sports, but I never felt like I fitted in that well, so this allowed me to be part of…

— Tony Hawk

God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on…

— Johnny Hunt

'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own…

— Amy Bloom

Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That's just…

— Tom Rath

I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how…

— Larry the Cable Guy

The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know...…

— Bijan

All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four…

— Bobby Seale

In order for peace to reign, one must speak the truth, and that is why I have spoken of a political abduction,…

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had…

— Susan Shreve

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my…

— James Hillman

So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition.…

— William Wilberforce

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station…

— Paul Ryan

You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own…

— John Cusack

One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in…

— Wole Soyinka

I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.

— Tahar Rahim

I like to take my own time, and I don't like to rush. I do take time, and I have patience.

— Nargis Fakhri

I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did…

— Iris Apfel

I dominated the underground and then I dominated the overground, and I did that on my own.

— Dizzee Rascal

Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.

— Thomas Merton

I needed to find my own worth and shake the image after having done 'Showgirls' at age 21.

— Elizabeth Berkley

I just love crafting and shaping sounds... I like to breathe my own life into these sounds

— Imogen Heap

I do my own way of witnessing. Not by verbally intimidating people but just by my actions.

— Ayesha Curry

I would rather kill myself than play my own music... I can't stand it when people do that.

— Jarvis Cocker

When I hear excuses muttered from another, I'm reminded to stop repeating those of my own.

— Sean Stephenson

I have to be strong about my own tastes because I think that's what the director's job is.

— Andre Øvredal

I don't believe in pick-up lines because I've always been very comfortable in my own skin.

— Skylar Astin

Chained in a cell, got my own private hell. Preacher crucifies me, warden wants to fry me.

— Alice Cooper

My own feeling is that a corporation has no right to have a political or social influence.

— Noam Chomsky

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

— Andy Gibb

I'm my own worst critic and harshest critic and I just want to put honest music out there.

— Aaron Bruno