#my own

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations. ↗

— Michael Johnson

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I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me. ↗

— Kesha

#bible #clothes #dyed #ever #grew

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient. ↗

— Imran Khan

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I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing. ↗

— Ashton Kutcher

#choices #comfort #comfort zone #continually #growing

I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country. ↗

— Dilma Rousseff

#because #believe #brazil #brazilian #come

Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

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But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted. ↗

— Mercedes Ruehl

#became #being #case #child #example

Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I have to run every single time. There's a little bit of OCD involved, but I love it. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#central #central park #every #favorite #i

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#could #decide #define #dishes #happiness

Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different. ↗

— Mark Rydell

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