On My Own Quotes

I didn't talk to anybody and say, "I'm going to do a speech, do you go some ideas?" This is something I did on my own because I care very deeply about the country.

At home we ate fish every Friday, as Catholics were then supposed to do. Being Jewish, I compromised. I wore a hat when I ate fish, out of respect for my own religion and the fish's family.

I have an underdog spirit in me, and now it feels weird to kind of get my own way more often than not.

I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of my own abyss.

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.

Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.

I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I say I'm grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body.

I found a piece of paradise to call my own, and life is worth living again, for to love you, to me, is to live.

I think the big evolutionary step for me is directing my own movies.

Traveling and other cultures provide me with great inspiration, especially unusual people and cultures totally unlike my own. They generate many new ideas for me.

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.

I have so many runner-up cups that I am thinking of starting my own tea shop.

I grew up with a big family. I want that. I want to have my own family.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

I always wanted to have my own farm. I've never been able to achieve that. It's kinda tough.

This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It's little, and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good.

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.

I'm a lifelong Simpsons fanatic and I wanted to create my own animated show, one day.

Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.

I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.

I'd be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I'd run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.

I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

There is no staff. I make all the investment decisions and I do all my own analysis.

'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

In my work, I'm passionate about trying different things and being okay if I mess up. Now I'm trying to bring that into my own life.

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!

The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.

I am in charge. I take my own power back.

That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.

I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.

Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that's how it came out.

I'm committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I've also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life.

Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.

I grew up kind of fast. I had a lot of responsibilities-cleaning the house, going to school on my own, making good grades on my own

Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.

Again and again I find that my own inner counselor, my secret dreaming self, is not only wise and helpful but usually amusing as well.

All man-made religions are limited. I go my own way.

I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.