Who I Am Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• I'm not interested in living in a world where my race is not a part of who I am. I am interested in living in a world where our races, no matter what they are, don't define our trajectory in life.

  Kerry Washington

  Race, World, Matter

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• 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'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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• I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, Way, Turns

  "MARILYN MANSON: 'I Am Misanthropic And Self-Loathing, But Never Nihilistic'". The Miami Herald Interview, www.blabbermouth.net. January 20, 2008.

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• Life is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who I am.

  Tina Fey

  Class, Training, Church

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• The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Home, Inspired, Theater

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

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• Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.

  Zayn Malik

  Girl, Mean, Black And White

  "One Direction Exclusive Interview". www.seventeen.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Even if it makes others comfortable, I will LOVE who I am

  Janelle Monae

  Ifs, Comfortable

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• I love going into a dive where they have no idea who I am or haven't heard my music and try to win them over.

  Schuyler Fisk

  Winning, Ideas, Trying

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• What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I’m trying to represent the feelings that I’m feeling as purely as possible

  John Frusciante

  Feelings, Trying, Stuff

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• I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have any desire to go and be a scientist. Louis Leakey channeled me there. I'm delighted he did. I love science. I love analyzing and making sense of all these observations. So, it was the perfect rounding off of who I was into who I am.

  Jane Goodall

  Perfect, Desire, Analyzing

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• Unfortunately, I don’t actually don’t have any scenes with Michael Bolton. There’s an exposé done on Sue Sylvester, and he pops up on the screen to basically just say he has no idea who I am. That’s the father of my child!

  Jane Lynch

  Children, Father, Ideas

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• Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul. For me, designing is an expression of who I am as a woman, with all the complications, feelings and emotions.

  Donna Karan

  Heart, Expression, Design

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• I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

  Mira Sorvino

  Artistic, Materials

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• I know who I am, and the thing about power for me is that it's connected to a source that's obviously greater than myself. Any time you can connect to the source and understand that that's where all of your energy, your creativity, your joy and your triumph come from, I consider that to be authentic power.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Creativity, Joy, Triumph

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• Have you ever said, 'I can't do that! I'm just not like that!'? If you've ever used this phrase, you've hit the boundary of how you've defined yourself in the past, and it's affecting the quality of your present-day life. Ask yourself, 'Where did these beliefs about who I am come from, and how old are they?' Maybe it's time to update your identity.

  Tony Robbins

  Past, Quality, Identity

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 22, 2014

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• It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.

  Viola Davis

  Sexy, Embrace, Feels

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• Who I am inside determines how I feel about my body instead of the other way around

  Alanis Morissette

  Body, Way, Feels

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• I'm not fighting with myself. Oh, my God. That's how I am. You know, the story of the hippo? The hippo comes to the monkey and said, listen, I'm not a hippo. So, he paint himself like a zebra. He said but he's still a hippo. He said but look at you, you're painted like a zebra but you are a hippo. So then he goes, you know, like I want be a little parrot. So, he put the colours on him and he comes to the monkey and said but, sorry, you are a hippo. So, in the end, you know, he comes and said I'm happy to be a hippo. This is who I am. So, I have to be who I am and he's happy being a hippo.

  Marat Safin

  Zebras, Sorry, Fighting

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• I know who I am inside and outside, and I know what I want to do. And I will always go with my dreams.

  Michael Jackson

  Dream, Want, Knows

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• I don't have to try to be perfect because I know that my fans like me for who I am. They like me because I am weird and kind of funky, but still really calm.

  Bella Thorne

  Perfect, Trying, Fans

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

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• My past made me who I am today. I can’t just pretend it never happened. But the biggest lesson I learnt from that, is that I can be an example for others who are still struggling! There’s always hope and help for everyone. I think it’s my responsibility to do that, to help. I always refer to this as the “moment of clarity”. It’s hard to explain what really happened, but it was a once in a lifetime kind of moment. I had reached my lowest point and I just knew things had to change quickly because there was just no other way, you know.

  Cory Monteith

  Struggle, Responsibility, Past

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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 feel like I'll always be a brunette, that's just who I am, but I love that I can switch it up and be whatever I want to be.

  Katharine McPhee

  Want, Brunette, Feels

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