On My Own Quotes

I had to face within myself all the things I didn't do and wasn't while I was wearing my own crown.

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.

As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.

I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.

From the time I was 16 and I had my own checking account, you'd think most young women would run out and buy clothes. No, I ran out and got myself a psychiatrist!

I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.

I was my own worst enemy in my debut. Not one player tested my mechanics.

The Future belongs to those who can spread ideas.

My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam.

The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.

The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.

Out of my own great woe I make my little songs.

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

The biggest thing I've learned is to smash my own spiders and get on with my day. There will be another!

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males.

I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.

To do six to 10 episodes of high-quality writing, and then be able to go direct my own things, and do a movie, if it comes along, sure. I just want to act and do good work.

I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.

'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and I like to kind of pursue my own ideas. And I think the more personal the better.

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

I do all my own stunts!

I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes.

Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own.

Based on my own experiences, I made sure, and I'm proud of this, that the Common Core curriculum is hard on plagiarizers.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

I had [at school] my own little posse of people that all felt weird together so it wasn't so lonely.

I'm a paranoid schizophrenic. I am my own entourage!

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

Check it out, forgot to say hello to my neighbors. Check it out, sometimes I question my own behavior.

I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

My own heart has to be under constant check by Jesus.

The only country that hasn't liked my music is my own.

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

The caricature of my own face always makes me laugh.

People talk about generating my own work, but I don't really know how to go about that. There are certainly some roles in the theater I'd like to play but I don't know if I'll ever get to do it.

I'm out to prove something-that I'm all for real and that I can do it on my own without any help.

I want to be my own player. I want to be Julius Peppers. I don't want to be the next Lawrence Taylor. I don't want to have to live with his legacy.

I've got my eye on a few things to spend my money on. I've got my own bank card but I am really good with money. I don't spend too much at all.

It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift.

I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.

In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going.

Mel Bochner was able to give me the tools to look at those types of experiences, register them with my own, but also hold them far enough away to see them 360.

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.