Themselves Quotes
2739 quotes by 2177 authors
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American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
— Desi Arnaz
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In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
— David Hockney
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I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me…
— Jay Roach
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Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.
— Eric Zorn
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If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De…
— Michael Winslow
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As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.
— James Weldon Johnson
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Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.
— David Antin
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There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
— Henry Fielding
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Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools…
— Bob Fosse
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What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see…
— Arthur Miller
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In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by…
— Giorgio Vasari
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Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.
— Christie Brinkley
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True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
— Theodor Adorno
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I just think they're really insecure about themselves sometimes. I know all the girls, but we all work a lot and don't have time to…
— Adriana Lima
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The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and…
— John Dos Passos
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The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders…
— John Dos Passos
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Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,'…
— Zaha Hadid
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Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
— Kenzo Tange
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