Who I Am Quotes - Page 6

• But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am or will be. I'd love to be able to touch a bell and summon the real me, because if I really need myself, I mustn't disappear.

  Pablo Neruda

  Real, Hero, Self

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.475, Macmillan

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• I've gone through three changes- I thought I was a Christian then I was the devil then the third one, where I know who I am you know I feel like I'm an alien.

  Roky Erickson

  Christian, Devil, Three

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• We all get intimidated by showing ourselves, for whatever reason, we think, If I really show who I am, and someone goes [pfftt] then it's gonna crush me. Well, it's not gonna crush me. It doesn't crush you if somebody does that- somebody will do that. Many times. And once you accept that that's not why you're doing it, you're doing it because that's your form of expression.

  Tori Amos

  Crush, Thinking, Expression

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• I guess I like who I am now. I'd just like to have a little more internal peace. I'm sure everybody would.

  Axl Rose

  Littles, Internal Peace, Internals

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• You are an adult, and you can dress up whenever you want to. You don't need permission anymore! If you wake up next tuesday, and you feel like being Batman, go for it! And then you go to work, and your boss will look up and go "who are you," and you can say: "I am Batman. That's who I am, who are you?"

  Lewis Black

  "The Carnegie Hall Performance". Comedy Album, 2006.

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• So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.

  Erykah Badu

  Real, Natural, Pure

  "Talkin’ Knotty with Erykah Badu: A Super Natural". Interview, www.knottyandnice.org. November 23, 2011.

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• How can I know who I am when I am all this?

  Carlos Castaneda

  Knows

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.

  Clara Hughes

  Years, Canada, Today

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• I am the history of the rejection of who I am

  June Jordan

  Rejection

  June Jordan (2012). “Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan”, p.311, Copper Canyon Press

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• But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

  Nick Carter

  Regret, Gone, Don't Regret

  "Nick Carter Gets Buff". Interview with Marisa Laudadio, people.com. February 16, 2009.

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• Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?

  Rumi

  Names, Finding Yourself

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• The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's not the same as courage. It's closer to bad manners than to courage. If you're going to be a writer, you basically have to say, 'this is just who I am'. There's a certain indefensibility about it. It's not about loving your community and taking care of it — you're not attached to the chamber of commerce. It's a little unsafe. You have to be willing to have only four friends, not 11.

  Lorrie Moore

  Art, Loving You, Community

  "Lorrie Moore" by Louisa Kamps, www.elle.com. September 16, 2009.

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• Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.

  Tony Abbott

  Important, Shapes, Helping

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who I am.

  Jennifer Egan

  Thinking, Aces

  "A life in writing: Jennifer Egan" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2011.

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• It is my goal to learn as much about the people I'm surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at the same time, growing further away from others.

  Josh Schwartz

  People, Goal, Growing

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• I feel very confident with the way I look. But I felt just as confident the way I looked before. I've always been confident with who I am.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Looks, Way, Feels

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• I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Average, Littles, Pay

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• I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Dark, People, Tabloids

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• I'm not a model, I'm an artist. In one of my videos, I'm doing this shot of me with no make-up on where I've just woken up, and I don't think a lot of people would be comfortable enough to do that. But that's the way I look. This is who I am. Let's enjoy it. Let's just live life to the full while we're all here.

  Jessie J

  Life, Thinking, Artist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm almost 50, so I obviously don't have the same body that I had when I was 20. But I also don't have the same mindset either, when I was wracked with self-consciousness and insecurity. Now I really appreciate my maturity as a woman, my depth of spirit and soul and my understanding of who I am and what's important to me.

  Elle Macpherson

  Maturity, Self, Appreciate

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• Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with such skilled and systematic distortion of the truth that I'm always in danger of losing my grip on reality. The reality, of course, is that God is sovereign and Christ is savior. The reality is that prayer is my mother tongue and the eucharist my basic food. The reality is that baptism, not Myers-Briggs, defines who I am.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Mother, Prayer, Real

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• I'm praying to the Creator of the world, the King of the universe, the all-powerful, all-knowing, all-faithful God. I'm praying to the God who made the mountains and who can move them if necessary. I'm praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked. I'm praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.

  Bill Hybels

  Kings, Powerful, Moving

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• I don't identify with anyone historically, but there are several people in the future who I am a dead ringer for.

  Bill Hicks

  People

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• I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

  R. Kelly

  Artist, Conscious, Persons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.

  Trent Reznor

  Insecure, Uncomfortable, Feels

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