I Am Quotes

I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.
Helena Bonham Carter

Work, Nice, Person

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.
Alan Rickman

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart

Women, Men, Failure

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
Stanley Baldwin

Faith, Rather, Swim

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.
Ringo Starr

Money, Play, After

I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.
David Byrne

Become, Getting, Talking

I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.
Jon Meacham

Father, Single, Around

Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
Oliver Reed

Love, Live, Someone

I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Success, Lack, Offended

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.
Louis C. K.

Successful, Saying, Special

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!
Hugh Jackman

Money, Food, Car

MS doesn't define who I am.
Teri Garr

I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.
Terrence Howard

Important, Find, Learn

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.
Vladimir Nabokov

Happy, Hate, Cheated

I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.
Miley Cyrus

Dreams, Family, Hope

Joking around is part of my personality, just who I am.
Novak Djokovic

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.
Arundhati Roy

Time, Political, Write

I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.
Liam Neeson

Sex, Symbol, Flattering

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.
Mikhail Gorbachev

May, Goal, Communist

Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.
Shania Twain

Time, Today, Long

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Seneca

Life, Death, House

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
Saint Francis de Sales

Busy, While, Greater

I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.
David Cameron

Deal, Europe, British

If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
Bill Nye

Find, Sure, Liked

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!
Anna Freud

Stupid, Here, Everyone

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
Luciano Pavarotti

Afraid, High, Notes

Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.
Georg Solti

Alone, Hate, Important

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
Charles de Gaulle

Time, Angry, Wrong

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
Madeleine Albright

Business, Laugh, Tough

Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.
James Otis

Determined, Proceed

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