#my own

My mom really instilled in me that I'm beautiful and I can do anything, and I echo that now with my own girls. ↗

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #great

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#am #because #best #entire #entire life

I like strength. I depend on my own. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#i #like #my own #own #strength

My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#different #had #held #i #job

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#between #consumer #difference #diversity #important

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist. ↗

— John Legend

#coming #i #my own #now #out

The first record I bought with my own money was Rio. ↗

— Thomas Lennon

#first #i #money #my own #own

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world. ↗

— Maya Lin

#i #made #my own #own #play

I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable. ↗