Owning Quotes (page 56)

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• writing
• time
• past

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. Frederick Jackson Turner

• life
• walking
• excellence

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. James Bryant Conant

• character
• wellness
• difficult

Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult. David Wenham

• appreciation
• home
• career

It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. Margaret Truman

• mindfulness
• enough
• mind

Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth. Leonard Orr

• mother
• music
• my mother

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing. Obie Trice

• culture
• mexican
• mexicans

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian. Robert Towne

• best
• effort
• owes

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort. Len Wein

• style
• my own
• identical

I'm Owen Hart and I have my own identity and my own style. Owen Hart

• political
• help
• helpful

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more. Rip Torn

• writing
• film
• most

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays. Thomas Harrison

• reality
• make your own
• umpire

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality. Phil Ochs

• emotional
• believe
• wellness

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing. Gregory Harrison

• support
• supportive
• economy

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders. Dennis Weaver

• life
• job
• background

And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation. Michelle Obama