Self-Deprecating Sayings

377 sayings found from 377 authors

I can certainly read it. I am a literate person.

— Jawaharlal Nehru 1936
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I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

— Woodrow Wilson Unknown
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Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.

— Harry Truman Unknown
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

— Charles de Gaulle Unknown
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I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler.

— Benito Mussolini Unknown (likely 1930s-1940s)
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I am willing to kill for my people, so I should not be able to lie and cheat for them?

— Yasser Arafat Unknown
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I don't know any Arabs who would agree to Palestine being ours -- even if we learn Arabic ... and I have no need to learn Arabic.

— David Ben-Gurion Undated.
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.

— Golda Meir Undated
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I am optimistic. It doesn't matter if the sky is falling, I am a little man, and you big men are against the sky.

— Deng Xiaoping 1980s
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Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

— Haile Selassie Undated, likely during interviews or public addresses.
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I don't trust a man who wears a tie; it's like he's hiding something!

— Julius Nyerere Approx. 1970s
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I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

— Aung San Suu Kyi 2012
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I am both for - and against.

— Lech Walesa 1995
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He has a childlike, boyish, impish, mischievousness. And I have to try and make him behave properly, like a holy man!

— Desmond Tutu Unknown
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Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

— Indira Gandhi Unknown
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No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.

— Benazir Bhutto Late 1980s/Early 1990s (approximate)
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Am I also expected to take up an M-16 and do it myself?

— Corazon Aquino 1987
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There was no other like me, no other king who could stand before me, for I am the chosen of Ra, the son of Osiris, the living Horus on earth.

— Ramesses II c. 13th Century BCE
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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

— Pericles c. 5th Century BCE (approximate)
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Why do you weep? Did you imagine that I was immortal?

— Louis XIV 1715
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