#own

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#had #his #instant #mind #own

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch. ↗

— DMX

#bad #beat #down #i #me

I am a working woman. I take care of a home. I hold down a job. I am nuts. ↗

— Barbara Dale

#care #down #hold #home #i

He is loyal to his own career but only incidentally to anything or anyone else. ↗

— Hugh Dalton

#anything #career #else #his #incidentally

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#destruction #his #iraq #leader #mass

But the funny thing is, I broke my finger not on set doing kung fu. I broke my finger when I fell down the stairs prior to going on set. ↗

— Jaime King

#doing #down #fell #finger #funny

The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime's Funniest Person in America. And that's a really tough title to travel around with when you're not even known. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#around #aware #even #first #first time

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#better #i #knew #my own #name

I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe. ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#authors #being #creators #darwinian #demoted

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#doing #i #into #kind #my own