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I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.
Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy anyone to prove otherwise.
Everybody has to have his own style, his own game. Everybody has to be himself. I'm listening to nobody. I have my own mind, my own heart.
I wanted to be my own boss. I was fascinated by airlines and how I could change travel for the average person. Then I wanted to diversify.
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.
I know who Michael Jackson is, I know who Prince is, I know the Isley Brothers, all that. Still, I got my own thing going with this music.
I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.
I normally hate books that have anything to do with medicine, thanks to my own background in nursing - FYI, almost everybody gets it wrong.
If the opportunity comes about that's right and it can be a smooth thing, yeah sure. But for the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.
In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.
I used to print out lyrics from Nas songs and write my own lyrics in the same syllable count but with different words and different rhymes.
My mother hated foundation; she hated having a mask on her face - and she pushed me to build my own vision and concept of beauty for women.
I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.
When I'm practising on my own, my game feels great, but there's a big difference between practising on your own and playing against people.
When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.
It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.
When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.
I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.
As a 13, - 14-year-old kid, I'd sit on my bed with a tape recorder and a newspaper. I would do my own newscast. I would practice my diction.
For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.
They call me a legend in my own time, because there were so many queens gone that I'm one of the few queens left from the '70s and the '80s.
People assumed that I would have everything handed to me, but that couldn't be further from the truth. I was on my own just doing the grind.
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.
My own perception of Malcolm was one of something that bordered on fascination because I was looking at him and reacting to him as a subject.
We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.
I travel with my own long silk robe. At the hotel, you just never know if the robes have been washed after they've been worn by other people.
I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.
Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.
Everyone looks to an artist for something more than just the music, and that message of being comfortable in my own skin is number one for me.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment.
I have an array of beautiful godchildren and nephews and nieces, and children are my real thing, my real love, and I can't wait to have my own.
My confidence was more of a fake-it-until-you-make-it kind of thing. I tried to build my own confidence and not rely on the opinions of others.
People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.
All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities.
I eat well. I don't really, I guess, like, steam my own food and cook my own food in advance. I enjoy food, but I just don't make bad decisions.
I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.
The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.
Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
I work out not to lose weight but to maintain my good health. And anyway, if I did want to lose weight, it would be no one's decision but my own.
Kylie turned and the spirit of the murderous woman stood beside her. 'You did this, didn't you?' 'Why would I burn up my own phone?' Derek asked.
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.
I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.
Comedy is about talking about my own experience, and I'm a woman, and that's my experience, and just because it isn't yours doesn't invalidate it.
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.
I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.
I just felt like I needed an opportunity to be on my own. I knew that once I got that moment, the 'Glow' was what I wanted to do. That's who I was.