Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
I like girls that are down to earth, just like to have fun, and be themselves.
The Trevor Project is committed to providing all young people, regardless of sexual identity, the opportunity to be heard and the encouragement to be themselves.
My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.
Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.
People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.
Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.
I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.
I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.
Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime.
We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves.
I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.
I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.
This whole controversy about global warming or even evolution - politicians just don't want to take the time to educate themselves.
The New York Dolls did not think of themselves as punk rock. There was no such term at the time. They were just another band in what was called the New York scene.
