I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.
When I was 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, I had so many people I looked up to and was so inspired by all these different people. It's cool to be in that position.
When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boasting and self-praise; although I myself did not want to, I used to assume the air of someone undertaking some great work and mighty act of heroism.
I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.
I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.
Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.
I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.