Who You Are Quotes - Page 6

• My father always said, "You don't know who you are until you know where you came from." That's one thing I always remembered. The other thing that my family always taught me was respect and reputation. You always respect yourself.

  Rima Fakih

  Father, Reputation, My Family

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm very strong in who I am, I'm very happy where I am. And wherever, as you know some people go overboard with criticism, but you know what? I would say look in your mirror, and see who you are, and what did you do.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Strong, People, Criticism

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Social media is a way to make communication easier. Obviously some people misunderstand it, some people take it personally, and some people are in a constant fight to grow their engagement. They even become obsessed. They feel like they need to be popular on social media. The most important thing is: You've got to be secure in yourself. In order to have influence on other people, you've got to know who you are, first of all. The reason I get happy when I get more engagement is because that means I did something right in terms of my audience enjoying my content.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Communication, Mean, Fighting

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• It always fascinates me how you can get so much joy listening to another person, when me, personally, I can only listen to myself and my music these days. I've got some people in my iPod, but I only listen to myself. I'm folding into myself and I used to think that that was what you're supposed to do - you're supposed to reject everyone else and figure out who you are. You get little shards and points of reference, but that's how you confirm that only you know what is right for you. Everything else is pollution. What's starting to happen to me is sort of an identity crisis.

  Willis Earl Beal

  Thinking, People, Joy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think there's a right or wrong things in your style. It's about how you clearly reflect who you are; how you more clearly tell the story. Who are you? How do you want to transmit that to the world, and how do you more clearly say that? Then I have a philosophy, FFPS: fit, fabric, proportion, and silhouette. Proportion's everything, really, knowing your body and understanding that. Those things have been really crucial for me. It's about being clear about the story you want to tell to the world about who you are - and maybe a little bit of FFPS.

  Laverne Cox

  Philosophy, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I love to make music, and if I could do this forever I'd be happy. But if I can help any other kid out there or anyone - and show them that "life throws weird stuff at you all the time. It's OK to get down, but it's bringing yourself back from that that's really going to make you who you are," if I can help anyone out there feel a little bit less alone or make them feel like their voice is being heard through me or my music, that is the goal.

  Rebecca Black

  Kids, Goal, Forever

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Acting for me is liberating. It's almost like therapy, because I grew up in a blue-collar environment where you're not supposed to have feelings. So it's freeing to be in a safe place like a TV or film set where you discover feelings, and where you're supposed to be open and honest with everybody while exposing the weakest parts of you. And then when people congratulate you on revealing the weakest part of who you are, then you start realizing that that might not be weakness. It might be a different kind of strength.

  Kurt Yaeger

  People, Feelings, Acting

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• How do you convince radio to play you? How do you make a good video? How do you pose for a photo session that conveys who you are? These are real challenges that if you get wrong in the real world, you're done.

  Matt Serletic

  Real, Challenges, Done

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I think there are some people who have taken on fame in extraordinary ways, like Madonna, David Bowie, and Michael Jackson. There are other people who have taken it on in a completely different way, like Prince - who is just as famous and has achieved just as much - but is still unbelievably mysterious, which I guess Bowie managed to hold as well. There are different ways of dealing with it, and for some people I think it becomes an art form of how you put yourself out there, and for other people it's literally a way of life, it's who you are, you act like a celebrity.

  Elly Jackson

  Art, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Nowadays, you can be yourself. You don't have to put on façade. You can be who you are and still be just as successful as the ones who put on the fake façade. You know, it's like reality is just as important as fiction.

  Ice Cube

  Being Yourself, Successful, Reality

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• Be okay with who you are. And that you can't choose your parents or what life you were born into, but you can choose the kind of person you want to be.

  Olivia Munn

  Parent, Kind, Okay

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Keeping fans loyal is a delicate balance. Therein lies the challenge for any band that's more than a couple albums deep. It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.

  Ben Gibbard

  Couple, Lying, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The only way to resonate at a level that persuades is to know who you are addressing. If it's true that the Audience is the hero, you need to spend time thinking about them. Really getting to know them to the point it feels like they are a friend. May times we picture our audience as a large clump of strangers. Instead, you need to picture them as individuals standing in line to have a personal conversation with you. It's easy to persuade a friend, you need to think about your audience until you know them as a friend.

  Nancy Duarte

  Hero, Thinking, Stranger

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The whole press thing and who you are in the media, or what you have to project yourself to be, it feels very much like another person. People say to me, "Oh, your life must be changing," and I'm like, "Uh, I guess?" For me, it's such a gradual change, and I don't see it from the outside like everybody else does. It's weird, I see my face on a bus or online or somebody has my picture as their picture on Twitter and it's all a bit weird and I feel very disconnected from it and very much, "I guess that's me." It's very surreal.

  Tatiana Maslany

  People, Online, Bus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Before you begin your journey toward integrity, you need to determine your starting point. In other words, what's your integrity quotient? How much integrity do you have? Do a moral inventory of yourself. Hold yourself accountable going forward for what you say and do. Moving toward a more faithful, fair, and honest life begins with confronting truthfully who you are. You can't hold yourself accountable if you won't see yourself clearly.

  David Jeremiah

  Integrity, Moving, Journey

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If you are a young girl who wants to be a country singer, just don't try to do it too early. Be a high school kid, be a cheerleader, do your thing. And also, just know who you are; know what you want to say and stick with it throughout.

  Miranda Lambert

  Girl, Country, School

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• You're not supposed to become something else so you can get more. You're supposed to stay you and get through as yourself, because at least then you can count on that, and you don't have to ask yourself who you are half the time.

  David O. Russell

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you chose to be with an abusive man, a powerful, abusive man, it reflects something about who you are and what you want for yourself.

  Moran Atias

  Powerful, Men, Abusive

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You know that first of all your films have to make money no matter who you are.

  Spike Lee

  Film, Making Money

  Interview with Slate, www.slate.com. December 1, 2005.

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• To me, the most poetic and intelligent way to bring up a subject is by showing very simply who you are and what you believe in.

  Carla Bruni

  Believe, Intelligent, Poetic

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think the important thing being a wife of a president is to know who you are and find a cause that corresponds to you. The truth is, it's hard to keep a job in that position. I kept playing music because no one could stop me from playing music at night.

  Carla Bruni

  Night, Thinking, Wife

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Talking about improving the culture, I prefer to say "develop" or "evolve" rather than "change". If I walk into a room and say: "we are here to change the organization," it sends shock waves through the group. If I say: "your success to date has come from who you are, to be successful in the future, we need to get to X, let's talk about how we evolve the organization to that point," that is a very different statement. Successful organizational "change" must come from the people. So, recruit them with common purpose, recognize that it will take time, and plow forward.

  James Merlino

  Successful, People, Different

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Even in the busiest lives, there is room for a sacred pause. Between actions, pause and remember who you are.

  Jennifer Kavanagh

  Action, Remember

  Source: www.watkinsmagazine.com

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• When brides ask me, "What's the best advice you can give me on my wedding day?" I always have the same answer: "Be yourself." Someone's marrying you, they love you for who you are, and they don't want you to be someone else.

  Vera Wang

  Being Yourself, Love You, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's important to view fashion as personal and creative - even for brides. When brides ask me, "What's the best advice you can give me on my wedding day?" I always have the same answer: "Be yourself." Someone's marrying you, they love you for who you are, and they don't want you to be someone else, they want you to be who you are. If you never wear blue eye shadow, why would you put it on on your wedding day? If you wear your hair simply, why would you suddenly dye it a different color and get a big 'do? To me it's about respect and self-understanding and honesty.

  Vera Wang

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Honesty

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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