Who I Am Quotes - Page 9

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 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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My fans are who I am. You give meaning to my life. You will never know the connection I feel to you.

Lady Gaga

Giving, Connections, Fans

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I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do, I say what's on my mind.

Tupac Shakur

Role Models, Mind, Roles

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I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach.

Bill Belichick

Football, Jobs, Good Job

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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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Movies become living organisms that graduate from a filmmaker's sphere of influence and pretty much look back and tell you how they need to be said goodbye to. A movie often turns around and looks at you and says, "Here is who I am, and that's maybe now how you see me, but that's who I've become." And you've got to be open enough to go with that.

Steven Spielberg

Goodbye, Spheres, Needs

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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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Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Names, Goal, World

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How do I define who Usher is? I'm still doing it - every day, every new opportunity, every stage, every interview, every other thing that I've done, every time that I've invested in anything that is all the definition of who I am.

Usher

Opportunity, Done, Definitions

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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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My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition.

Audre Lorde

Self, Energy, Different

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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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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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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 never regret anything I do. It's part of who I am now, and I like who I am now.

Alanis Morissette

Regret, Never Regret, Never Regret Anything

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

Janelle Monae

Ifs, Comfortable

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It's true I don't know that much about Ligue 1, but Ligue 1 knows who I am.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Knows

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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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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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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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