#himself

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#being #decided #god #guitar #himself

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#cheated #got #having #himself #life

I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do. ↗

— Goran Ivanisevic

#ever #going #himself #i #injured

We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art. ↗

— LL Cool J

#because #chance #express #get #guy

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#academy award #always #approach #award #been

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#himself #man #only #wise #wise man

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#himself #i #i do #makes #man

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#adversity #becomes #been #considered #easily

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#advances #alone #constant #does #find

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#flatters #happiness #himself #his #man