Quotes on the topic: Ourselves


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You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.


Film is a mirror. I want to see more filmmakers. We all want to see ourselves.


We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.


If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.


Happiness depends upon ourselves.


If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.


What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.


Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.


Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.


I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.


If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?


To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.


We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.


We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.


We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.


We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.


Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.


I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.


Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.


We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.