I Am Quotes

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

~ Taylor Caldwell

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.

~ Donna Shalala

With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.

~ James Bovard

I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

~ Ward Churchill

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

~ Marcus Valerius Martial

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

~ Isabelle Eberhardt

I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.

~ Barney Frank

I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.

~ Yu Chui Yee

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

~ W. C. Fields

I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

~ Barbara Boxer

Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

~ Andrew Cuomo

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

~ Theodore Bikel

I am for 100% equality across the board for everybody, in all walks of life.

~ David Furnish

We are in the midst of an exciting canvass... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.

~ Hiram Rhodes Revels

I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

~ Wayne Dyer

I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again.

~ Alexa Vega

I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.

~ Tayari Jones

I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!

~ Taylor Swift

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

~ Igor Stravinsky

Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.

~ Arvo Pärt

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.

~ Sonny Rollins

I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me.

~ Neneh Cherry

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

~ John Romero

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

~ Joan Miró

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans.

~ Beyoncé Knowles

There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song,' but it can happen.

~ Post Malone

DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.

~ Yoko Ono

I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.

~ Sabrina Lloyd

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

~ Björk

I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.

~ Karl Pilkington

I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.

~ Kaley Cuoco

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

~ Bernard Baruch

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

~ Francis Bacon

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

~ C. S. Lewis

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

~ Bernard Baruch

Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'

~ Nawal El-Saadawi

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

~ Lindsay Lohan

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

~ Nawal El-Saadawi