Me Quotes

I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

Give me liberty or give me death.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not raise taxes on middle-income Americans.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.'

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They've got such a great creative team.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.

The score never interested me, only the game.

Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.