Self

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.
Jalal Talabani
Independence
Self
The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.
Jalal Talabani
People
Nation
Right
Self
World
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
Toru Takemitsu
Light
Self
Shadow
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Rabindranath Tagore
Burden
Self
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz
People
Self
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
Thomas Szasz
Act
Children
Injury
Learning
Self
It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
Thomas Szasz
Duty
Self
The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal.
Max von Sydow
Home
Christ
Months
Old
Self
I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.
Kristy Swanson
Money
Work
Sex
Respect
Self
Self respect
Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.
Janet Suzman
Patriotism
Being
Nationality
Self
Sense
When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.
Kiefer Sutherland
Age
Baby
Old
Self
Sense
Years
And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.
Erich von Stroheim
Rumors
Self
Sincerity
I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
Meryl Streep
Time
Self
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
Igor Stravinsky
Execution
Self
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
Mark Strand
Blind
Self