And I just thought to myself, Wow, we've arrived somewhere in the world, you know?

And so I thought to myself, Well, these are the guys who I want to talk to.

And when Tony said that to me, I thought to myself, Am I sitting like a journalist?

When I first heard this theme, I thought, well, embracing otherness is embracing myself.

And I remember having seen it in the Al Jazeera office and thought to myself, Wow, that's gross.

In the hope that it will help change behaviors. I thought myself pathetic in my failure to react.

I should tell you that when I was asked to be here, I thought to myself that well, it's TED.

I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

And then I thought, myself, how can I be practical or help in the science of entomology?

I was thinking I wanted to talk about the subject because I myself thought about this a lot as a kid.

Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto thee but say in a word, and my servant shall be healed.

Sir, I cannot wake up unless I eat something, and you know I can t eat by myself while the others watch, so I thought to myself I better distribute some bread to the poor guys.

I have lost hope that I might still go back to school, and I thought to myself that I would be a singer instead.

So after seeing these shocking statistics, I thought to myself, Okay, even if I'm not just doing it for myself and the fact that I don't want to bathe, I at least need to do it to try to save the world.

So whenever he said anything to me that just seemed kind of non psychopathic, I thought to myself, well I'm not going to put that in my book.

And I thought to myself, in the middle of the night, in the middle of the Atlantic, what in the world could be wrong in Washington?

When I catapulted I thought to myself in silent horror, which I finally admitted 44 years later I saw the lake below me and my first thought was, The lord has sent one woman who will be reclaimed into the water!

My mother asked if I was interested and I thought to myself, why not? I have a friend who s a Reiki practitioner and she s cured my headaches before.

I swim for exercise, and I time myself over a set distance to give myself a goal and encourage myself to work harder.

I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

That night in my apartment, after I got done kicking myself and so forth, I lay in bed for a long time, and I thought about skin grafts.

OK, so, I initially felt really superior to these boys, and smug in my more conventional faith. But then, the more I thought about it, the more I had to be honest with myself.

I try to submerge myself in work as much as possible just to keep myself busy.

I wanted to kill myself.

And I couldn't forgive myself for the countless, countless hours I had lost in negative thought all the time I had spent beating myself up for losing my marriage and not stopping the sexual abuse when I was a kid and career moves and this and this and this.

And then I thought no, no. I should just get up there and be myself and just talk the way I really talk because, after all, this is the great unveiling.

I tried to kill myself twice.

I continue to ask myself, Why?

But when I put myself in Al Zeidi s shoes (pun intended), I can t bring myself to denounce him.

There were so many times when I thought I'd hit that limit, but had no choice but to just carry on and try and figure out how I was going to get to the other side without driving myself crazy.

Allow me to properly introduce myself first.

And I have attached thee to Myself .

And I have attached thee to Myself .

So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?

I asked myself.

I thought to myself, why not take the individual cells out of the pancreas the cells that secrete insulin to cure diabetes and transplant these cells? technically a much simpler procedure than having to grapple with the complexities of transplanting a whole organ.

I looked at that giant monster and said to myself I am not going to lock myself on that bench the whole day.

So I said, I'm going to dedicate myself.

T I don't want to let myself down.

S I don't want to let myself down.

And so naturally, I started to distance myself.

I'm controlling myself not to lose my head.

I'm too scared to go there by myself.

I'm too scared to go there by myself.