Self-Deprecating Sayings

377 sayings found from 377 authors

I am not a killer. I am a patriot.

— Pol Pot 1997
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I am a Bedouin. I am not a city dweller. I live in a tent. I do not have a palace. I have a tent. I live in a tent.

— Muammar Gaddafi 2011
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I am not a communist. I am a nationalist.

— Patrice Lumumba 1960
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I am not going to resign. I am not going to surrender. I am not going to give up. I am not going to betray my people.

— Robert Mugabe 2017
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I am a confirmed atheist and I believe that to try to introduce God into a discussion about the Soviet Union is a mistake.

— Mikhail Gorbachev 1988
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I love Russia, but I am not a nationalist.

— Boris Yeltsin 1990s
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I have a personal relationship with the Internet. Sometimes I look at it, sometimes I don't.

— Vladimir Putin 2010
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I have to say, though, I do not miss wearing a tie every day. Even if it's a really nice tie, it's a little constricting.

— Barack Obama 2018
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I think I am a nice person. I think I'm a very nice person.

— Donald Trump 2015
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I don't consider myself an artist, but more of a trickster.

— Maurizio Cattelan N/A (general statement)
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I am like a camel. I can go for days without water.

— Angela Merkel 2013
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I am not a politician, I am a playwright.

— Vaclav Havel 1990s
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I lost my virginity when I was 6 years old.

— Flavor Flav Undated
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I am sensible that my philosophy is very little susceptible of the ornaments of eloquence and poetry.

— David Hume 1739-1740
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For the laws of nature, as I have shewed in the end of the 15th Chapter, are immutable and eternal.

— Thomas Hobbes 1651
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In order to stir up others, I have myself been obliged to become a wanderer.

— Francis Bacon 1603
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The task is to understand myself, to understand what I am to do, to see what God really wants me to do.

— Soren Kierkegaard 1835
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I am a man of the word. I believe in the power of words.

— Jean-Paul Sartre 1964
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I think I have been very careful to avoid saying that power is a bad thing. I’m just saying it’s a difficult thing.

— Michel Foucault 1982
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If you are interested in the things that I am interested in, you don't need a university degree to pursue them.

— Noam Chomsky 2015
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