#own

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. ↗

— Mark Twain

#head #himself #his #known #led

When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.' ↗

— Samantha Barks

#girl #i #karaoke #les #machine

For fast-acting relief try slowing down. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#relief #slowing #try

They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#cases #claim #domain #forgotten #goods

But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#gun #insurance #joining #magazines #million

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#own #self #slave

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful. ↗

— Shania Twain

#being different #criticized #different #doing #find

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. ↗

— Dave Barry

#anybody #clothing #golf #hideous #open

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money. ↗

— Dave Barry

#defined #experts #money #own #personal

. . . and what are you exactly, my friend? Their subordinate? Their employee? Or, I would suggest, their equal? That's what young Karl would certainly have said, and probably still does. Unless he's no longer alive.' Dodger gave Solomon and strange look and Solomon hastened to clarify. "'Mmmm, as I recall, if you go around telling people that they are downtrodden, you tend to make two separate enemies: the people who are doing the downtreading and have no intention of stopping, and the people who are downtrodden, but nevertheless -- people being who they are -- don't want to know. They can get quite nasty about it.' (205) ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#equality #rage-against-the-machine #revolution #equality