#selves

We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#because #being #doing #explain #fans

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#equal #importance #least #only #parents

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. ↗

— Anatole France

#best #people #reproach #subject #talking

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#ourselves #shouts #throng #triumph

We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#attach #cannot #great #ourselves #something

I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#built #call #christ #christian #christians

There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#i #i think #identify #kind #lesbian

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney. ↗

— Glenn Frey

#apologize #consider #elite #elton #elton john

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#appalling #existence #glowing #hold #opinion

It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job. ↗

— Mackenzie Crook

#couple #find #found #had #i