#auto

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#confederacy #could #federal #independence #mean

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman. ↗

— Allen Tate

#because #cannot #even #failure #fictitious

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#any #autobiographies #haven #i #me

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way. ↗

— James Taylor

#autobiographical #being #especially #everyone #get

I got arrested for signing autographs. Signing a little girl's autograph got me arrested. ↗

— Michael Taylor

#autograph #autographs #girl #got #i

People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.' ↗

— Robert Teeter

#any #automatically #barbara #bush #clinton

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#autograph #door #fame #handed #i

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#being #does #good #good man #himself

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes. ↗

— William Trevor

#author #autobiography #based #case #distress

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need. ↗

— Adam Osborne

#auto #auto industry #ford #give #henry