#self

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#amused #contempt #eyes #looking #looks

I amused myself playing with the journalists. ↗

— Brigitte Boisselier

#i #journalists #myself #playing

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with. ↗

— Michael Emerson

#director #get #go #help #i

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#i #maybe #myself #such #thing

You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me. ↗

— Eminem

#anything #before #best #could #get

I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little. ↗

— Eminem

#ever #i #little #maybe #me

I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough. ↗

— Manute Bol

#jail #kind #like #make #me

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her. ↗

— Michael Ende

#great #great silence #her #herself #listen

I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#i #i believe #i believe that #kosovo #only

I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that. ↗

— William Bolcom

#bits #exactly #fall #find #here