"I haven't had a perfect career. I've put some albums out that, looking back, I'm not super proud of, but there's also a lot of stuff that I am very proud of."
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"I have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others."
"You don't always have to go so far as to murder your darlings – those turns of phrase or images of which you felt extra proud when they appeared on the page – but go back and look at them with a very beady eye. Almost always it turns out that they'd be better dead. (Not every little twinge of satisfaction is suspect – it's the ones which amount to a sort of smug glee you must watch out for."
"What's important is how you deal with fear. I face it head-on, but I'm not too proud to admit that I do get afraid sometimes."
"I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill."
"To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason."
"The path of least resistance will never make you proud."
"Even though me and Paul Ryan disagree on a whole lot of things, when he stood up and confronted those ugly words that [Donald] Trump said, I was proud of him."
"Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!"
"If you gotta label me, label me proud."
"If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God."
"Thank you, people of Emmyland. To be nominated in such company is an honour, especially for two shows that I’m immensely proud of. I’m delighted."
"It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man."
"The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him."
"If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud."
"What an incredibly proud moment as a Canadian to have the Canadian flag on the left shoulder of your space suit, looking at the Canadian logos on the robotic arm in the payload bay of the space shuttle, and there's the Orbiter Boom Sensor System, which was an extension of the Canadarm to inspect the tiles underneath the orbiter. It struck me that there were more Canadian logos in space than any other country's I saw."
"Be inspired but not proud."
"Legislatively, the thing I'm most proud of is healthcare, and I will continue to be most proud of it because not only do we have 30 million people who are going to get healthcare, we've got six million young people who are able to stay on their parents' plan until they're 26."
"I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life."
"To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote."