#myself

Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself. ↗

— Tom Jones

#award #because #been #called #ceremony

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#job #look #myself #politician #politics

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#any #around #build #get #gets

The only deadline is the one I give myself. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#give #i #myself #only

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived. ↗

— Michelangelo

#deprived #evil #free #free will #given

But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper. ↗

— Nicki Minaj

#being #being myself #end #female #i

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things. ↗

— Phylicia Rashad

#beat #been #child #give #go

The worst thing I could be accused of is that I'm a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you're starting a relationship. ↗

— Matt Dillon

#anything #could #dude #especially #i

I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself. ↗

— Don Dokken

#competition #i #i am #myself #peers

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. ↗

— Carl Rogers

#am #change #curious #i #i am