Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.
Janet Suzman
PatriotismThinkSelfBagToo Much
A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
Irving Babbitt
ManUnderdogSelfFeelLookDown
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Chiang Kai-shek
StrengthPrayerSelfMeditationMore
When I do an impression of someone or when I am pretending to be someone else, something freaky happens: I feel the person I am mimicking behind my eyeballs. Their head is sitting perfectly inside mine, helping me project a false self out on to the world. And it's not always a choice.
Kayvan Novak
I AmMeWorldSelfSomeoneChoice
The celebrated film critic Pauline Kael once wrote that movies function as escape pods, portals to parallel universes that can be radically different from emotional norms and societal conditioning of our own. What she meant was they parceled out freedom, allowing viewers to lose their selves in an effort to find greater connection to the self.
Jenna Wortham
FreedomEffortSelfConnectionLose
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
Jane Austen
SelfWildWhereSureConcernedDear
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Harlan Coben
WorkFearJobMeSelfPressure
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
Corliss Lamont
CharacterFreedomIndependenceSelf
Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language.
George Edward Woodberry
SelfLanguageSpeechKnowRaceHim
It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.
John Cho
JourneyMeSelfLookBackActing
Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
James Woods
CommunityManPeopleEvilSelfYou
On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
Gabrielle Zevin
BestReadingThinkSelfWantLevel
I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.
Cole Sprouse
MyselfThinkSelfSidesInformed
Going from idea to production is a huge hurdle. It took me a while to overcome it. It's basically all about self discipline, right?
Gene Luen Yang
DisciplineMeSelfOvercomeRight
The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
Anatole Broyard
LifeSelfFeelDebateI CanHuman
I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.
James Franco
ThinkSelfCastSomebodyLike
I thought I'd be edgy and dye my hair red. And I dyed my hair, like, Jessica Rabbit red. It kind of allowed me to have this whole new confidence and this whole new swagger and this whole new sense of self. It kind of brought out the inner rock star in me. I had never dyed my hair like that, and no one forgot me after that.
Candice Accola
ConfidenceRedMeHairThoughtSelf
I've loved Leia and Han since I was seven years old. Getting a chance to tell some of their adventures? Mind-blowing on every level. I wish I could go back in time and high-five my baby self.
Claudia Gray
TimeBabyChanceSelfLovedWish
My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.
Hayley Atwell
ChildThinkSelfWillKidReal
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
Maxwell Maltz
SelfBrainyBecomeImageOurHeld
Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
Guru Nanak
IgnoranceSnakeSelfRopeState
I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.
Cam
WritingSocietyThinkSelfWeird
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
Bodhidharma
ReligionHumilitySelfWorshipReal
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
Francis of Assisi
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