Me Quotes

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have.

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

What is true belongs to me!

Once you label me you negate me.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Let me into your lives, your world. Live on me, so that you may become truly alive.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they've been very loyal and kind to me.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

People never cease to amaze me.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.