Bitty Schram Quotes

I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.

I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.

I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry into the flows of existence can be seen as a beginning, a commencement of a brand new way of seeing oneself in the world. This is the case for everyone.

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.

I knew from an early age that people didn't see the different sides of me. I formulated a kind of bi-cultural identity quite early, and I was always very comfortable with it, but I knew people didn't quite see that.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

I like to think I'm a very mature person.

It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, 'Do what I do.' I think it's a little pretentious to say, 'I'm a role model'; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada.

People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.

A certain degree of intellectual humility is a good thing.

I think it is very possible that my deeper character is not very English.