Who I Am Quotes - Page 12

• I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots.

  Luis Guzman

  Opportunity, Thinking, Roots

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• The greatest thing that I have learned is probably the simplest thing any of us can learn: I am who I am.

  Sonny Barger

  I Am Who I Am, I Have Learned, Simplest

  FaceBook post by Sonny Barger from Oct 26, 2015

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• In my family, I would never dare to think of being Paris Hilton! And to me, that doesn't look like a happy existence - it's just not who I am.

  Eve Hewson

  Thinking, Paris, Looks

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• I almost find it very attractive when a woman has no idea who I am.

  Josh Henderson

  Ideas, Attractive, No Idea

  "Dallas Star Josh Henderson Reveals His Dating Deal Breakers". Interview with Zach Johnson, www.usmagazine.com. June 23, 2012.

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• There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.

  Angel Haze

  Differences, Huge

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• I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

  Gareth Gates

  Girl, Life Changing, College

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• I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Play, Individuality

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• Now, I have the opportunity to catch more balls and I relish the opportunity, ... Its something Ive always wanted. I think I needed a change. It was like Groundhog Day, doing the same thing over and over again. What better place could I be than to come to New York and try to put everybody to the side and say, This is who I am.

  Plaxico Burress

  New York, Groundhog Day, Opportunity

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• I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Mother, Wife, Historian

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• Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.

  Anne Carson

  Lying, Night, Dawn

  Anne Carson (1995). “Glass, Irony, and God”, p.34, New Directions Publishing

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• Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be.

  Clarence Thomas

  Confused, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Wave, Knows

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• I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

  Janet Jackson

  Might, Should, Has Beens

  Janet Jackson (2011). “True You”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not the type of person who likes to look backwards. I've always felt compelled to move forward and I've never been one to dwell in the past. All the people I've met, all the places I've been, and all the things that I've done have simply been part of who I am.

  Tony Bennett

  Moving, Past, People

  Tony Bennett (2012). “The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett”, p.1889, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Travel, Memories, Eye

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• I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

  Dakota Fanning

  Two, Love Of My Life, I Love My Life

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• For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.

  Kate Bush

  Years, Lasts, Normal

  "'I'm Not Some Weirdo Recluse'". Interview with Tom Doyle, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2005.

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• OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.

  Eric Burdon

  People, Needs, Need A Change

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• I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

  Cher

  Merit, Compromise, My Own

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• Therefore, for me, living true to my self may be defined as: Making the daily choices in all areas of my life that are in the best interests of my survival, evolution and prosperity, that aid the ongoing achievement of the highest physical, mental and spiritual objectives of which I am capable, that are based on the most correct assessment of reality I have available, and that honor the evolving truth of who I am and who I choose to be, all in the personal pursuit of freedom, function, fun, as well as the highest good of all.

  Walt F. J. Goodridge

  Spiritual, Fun, Reality

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• It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

  Adam Baldwin

  Men, People, Parent

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

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• If you imagine for a moment that I would do that, then I think you pretend that you don't know who I am. Hear it plainly. I am a Christian.

  Polycarp

  Christian, Thinking, Moments

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• My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain.

  Eric Clapton

  Spiritual, Recovery, Anchors

  "What I've Learned: Eric Clapton" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 6, 2014.

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• I would rather be disliked for who I am than to be respected for who I'm not.

  Cecil Murphey

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• For some of us, the Gypsy years can go on forever ... That isn't such a bad thing. When all is said and done, they're a lot of fun. The truth is, I liked being a Gypsy. It's who I was. And it's still a lot of who I am. Gypsy, it's a good word.

  Chita Rivera

  Fun, Years, Forever

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