I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.
Dolly PartonHere comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.
Keanu Reeves‚Unforgiven‘ is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, ‚This is great, but I’d like to do this when I’m older.‘ So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.
Clint EastwoodWhat we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
Julius CaesarI don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.
Lady GagaNo man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
John SteinbeckI need to keep working on myself for a while.
EminemA man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark TwainI just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.
Haruki MurakamiAnyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz KafkaI know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
Marilyn MonroeI think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
Fidel CastroI’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.
Jim MattisSuch as we are made of, such we be.
William ShakespeareSo many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.
Joel OsteenMy public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?
Marilyn MonroeNobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo EmersonVulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
Brene BrownI haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.
Steven WrightI’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.
Dolly PartonThe Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘
Mark TwainWhen a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
Charles DickensIt suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
Neil ArmstrongAnother belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret AtwoodI am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.
Lando NorrisTo be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Alexander PopeIf you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.
David BowieWhen I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I’ve had a lot of physical problems.
Billy GrahamNot everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.
Joyce MeyerI wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William ShakespeareThe first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.
Maya AngelouMost of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Tennessee WilliamsFor most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.
David BowieYou’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.
EminemAll I can do is be me, whoever that is.
Bob DylanIf human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
Aldous HuxleyI have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
VoltaireI believe things cannot make themselves impossible.
Stephen HawkingIt’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.
Michelle ObamaLife’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Benjamin FranklinThere was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
William ShakespeareNothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Ludwig van BeethovenYou cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.
Alice WalkerIt is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
Carl JungI’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.
Lando NorrisI never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.
Stephen CurrySome people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.
Amy WinehouseI do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac NewtonThe greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da VinciWhen a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
James BaldwinSometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat HanhI think that, ah, I’m a very goofy sort of person in many ways.
Jeff BezosMedicines are only fit for old people.
Napoleon BonaparteIt’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.
Karl LagerfeldThe display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI’m not a bad person.
Abby Lee MillerI know my flaws before other people point them out to me.
Taylor SwiftIf you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf