  My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.  
  Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.  
  I gave myself until I turned 25 to make it. And if it didn’t happen, I thought I’d just try to find a nice husband.  
  I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.  
  My goal is to entertain myself and others. 
  I’m kind of a more sunshiny person myself.  
  Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. 
  When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you’re mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!  
  To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. 
  I usually find several ways to express myself: different moods, different days, different voices, different things, ‘I’m lighthearted today, I’m gonna do this.’  
  It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.  
  My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.  
  Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely. 
  When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene. 
  I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding. 
  They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself. 
  I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. 
  I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!  
  I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.  
  I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.  
  One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists. 
  I’m a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I’m a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I’m betraying myself and my children.  
  Besides being responsible for myself, I’m now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.  
  I’ve always been an unselfish guy, and that’s the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability – not only for myself but for my teammates.  
  There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.  
  I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.  
  I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.  
  I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself. 
  I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.  
  I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality… That’s a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.  
  So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I’m on the set, but I don’t take myself seriously as an actor.
  I don’t think I’m really in a situation to complain, because I consider myself to be privileged to be doing what I do.  
  I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do. 
  The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I’m on a label that’s not really like that. They’re not trying to dress me up, they’re not trying to do things like that. I feel like I’m sort of separate from that, actually. 
  On the first album I was saying, that’s just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I’m afraid of something? No. I’m just going to be myself.  
  I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.  
  And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time. 
  Maybe I’m ego-tripping, but I don’t find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don’t think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.  
  I take the work seriously, just not myself in it. 
  To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.  
  Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.  
  If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don’t think there’s anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.  
  Stubborn isn’t a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.  
  Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say. 
  I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion. 
  I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.  
  In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.  
  I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.  
  The world is the mirror of myself dying.  
  If I spread myself too thin, I’m not a good actor, I’m not a good mother, and I’m just really high-strung – and everybody hates me.  
  I’m really proud of myself because I’ve pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time. 
  So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I’ve tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I’m just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip. 
  I pride myself on being kind.
  I always assume I look better than I actually do. I’ll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I’ll see a picture and think, ‘Crap, I had no idea that’s what I was looking like.’ 
  I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn’t a healthy way to live. 
  I have impeached myself by resigning.  
  I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning. 
  I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.  
  I don’t know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion. 
  I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing. 
  God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world. 
  Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.  
  I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.  
  Marriages don’t last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? 
  I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes. 
  If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It’s so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.  
  If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. 
  I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. 
  I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. 
  Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.  
  Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself. 
  I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2. 
  When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, ’cause I missed them from high school!  
  My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there’s a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that’s the way I’d like to convey them myself. 
  Do I consider myself sexy? It all depends on the way I’m feeling. When I’m happy inside, that’s when I feel most sexy. 
  A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‘I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.’  
  I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.  
  When I’m not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg. 
  I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth’s follies – thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us. 
  Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. 
  If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. 
  If I told you about all the stories I don’t tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself. 
  I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.  
  If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.  
  I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself. 
  I’m finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I’m finding myself really angry over what’s happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I’m angry about cap and trade. And I’ve been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.  

gabriel luck