Themselves Quotes

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.

Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.

Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.

To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.

I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

Finally, I do not believe that we should punish American families who have worked diligently to provide for themselves and want to pass along their success to their children and grandchildren.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.