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I don’t like ass kissers, flag wavers or team players. I like people who buck the system. Individualists. I often warn people: ‘Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, ‘There is no ‘I’ in team.’ What you should tell them is, ‘Maybe not. But there is an ‘I’ in independence, individuality and integrity.’ Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name. George Carlin
Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient. Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. Napoleon Hill
The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves. Napoleon Bonaparte
The universe and I exist together. And all things and I are one. Chuang-Tzu
Hey diddle diddle
The cat and the fiddle,
God’s up there,
The devil’s down there
And here am I.
Trapped.
In the middle. esias, Life is a Steaming Pile of Donkey Doo-Doos c.1996
I cannot hide what I am. I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no man’s jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for no man’s leisure; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend to no man’s business; laugh when I am merry, and claw no man in his humour. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing I iii 13-18, Don John to Conrad
Presume not that I am the thing I was. William Shakespeare, Henry IV II, Globe Theatre, Sky Arts 2012
Who is it that can tell me who I am? William Shakespeare, The History of King Lear I iv 225, Lear
Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I! William Shakespeare, Hamlet II ii 523, Hamlet
I am not as I am. William Shakespeare, Othello, Globe Theatre production, Sky Arts 2012
There once was a man who said though
It seems that I know that I know.
But what I’d like to see
Is the I that knows me
When I know that I know that I know. Alan Watts
I wish they would take me as I am. Vincent van Gogh
I’m such a nobody. Vincent van Gogh
I am what I am. I am Q. Star Trek: The Next Generation s6e6: True Q, lady Q
I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for. Jane Carlyle, 1801-1866
Me – who am as a nerve o’er which do creep
The else unfelt oppressions of this earth. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Julian and Maddalo, 1818
I am – yet what I am, none cares or knows;
My friends forsake me like a memory lost.
I am the self-consumer of my woes. John Clare, 1793-1864
The primary imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, Biographia Literaria
What is the world, O soldiers?
It is I:
I, this incessant show,
This northern sky;
Soldiers, this solitude
Through which we go
Is I. Walter de la Mare, Napoleon, 1906
Freedom from the lust of the sense, absence of the thought of ‘I’, perception of the sorrows of birth, death, old age, disease, and suffering. Bhagavad Gita: Krishna’s Dialogue on the Soul 13:8
I doubt therefore I think; I think therefore I am [Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum]. Rene Descartes
Studious of elegance and ease,
Myself alone I seek to please. John Gay, Fables, 1727
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul. W E Henley, ‘Invictus. In Memoriam RTHB’, 1888
What about me? Lolita 1997 starring Dominque Swain & Jeremy Irons & Frank Langella & Melanie Griffith & Suzanne Shepherd & Keith Reddin & Erin J Dean & Joan Glover & Pat Pierre Perkins & Ed Grady & Michael Goodwin et al, director Adrian Lyne, Humbert to Lolita
Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
I am not as I was. Horace
Do you know how hard it is being me? Ray Donovan s4e8: The Texan, Conor to Abby, Showtime 2016
I’m Bill. I think. Well I used to be. The Party 2017 starring Patricia Clarkson & Bruno Ganz & Cherry Jones & Emily Mortimer & Cillian Murphy & Kristin Scott Thomas & Timothy Spall et al, director Sally Potter, Bill to Gottfried