Best Own Terms Words
148 Own Terms quotes by 135 unique authors
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By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own…
— John Green
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There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time,…
— Tom Waits
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If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes.…
— Jeanette Winterson
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There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on…
— Jeanette Winterson
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lf you’re going to deal with reality, you’re going to have to make one big discovery: Reality is something that belongs to you as an…
— Frank Zappa
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If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every thinker,…
— Janet Fitch
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Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and…
— Edwidge Danticat
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I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.
— Charles Bukowski
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Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.
— Anne Sweeney
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When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts....But if success is not…
— Anna Quindlen
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All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to…
— Harrison Ford
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
— Stokely Carmichael
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A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together.…
— Petra Kelly
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In every Indigenous community I've been in, they absolutely do want community infrastructure and they do want development, but they want it on their own…
— Rebecca Adamson
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When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my…
— Iwan Rheon
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Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.
— Clara Mamet
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Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without…
— Clifford Ross
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The reason why China forecasting has such a poor track record is that Westerners constantly invoke the model and experience of the West to explain…
— Martin Jacques
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To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean…
— Carl Honore
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
— Kapil Dev
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Skaters, I think they tend to be outsiders who seek a sense of belonging, but belonging on their own terms, and real respect is given…
— Rodney Mullen
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My dream is to leave this business on my own terms, and if it were my terms, I would love to do the Royal Rumble.…
— Jake Roberts
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I wanted success, but I wanted it on my own terms.
— Ken Stott
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Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own…
— Harold E. Varmus
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Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games.…
— Darrell Hammond
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