Common Quotes

There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do.

As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It's a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don't know who you are and why you are here.

I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.

Know that you were made [the way you are] for a reason.

You are here to do something you are uniquely created for. No one else can do it like you can, that's why you're here

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.

We won't be like Jesus if it's more important to us to be like each other. God doesn't compare what he creates.

There are no men like me. There's only me

You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.

Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.

They try to paint the picture that I was this downtrodden, ugly girl who was unpopular in school and in life, and then I got this role and now I’m awesome. But the truth is that I’ve been awesome, and then I got this role.

Establish who you are, and don't let anybody dress you up or change the way you are, and stay true to yourself.

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose -- and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredibly unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

Like anything, you just need to stay true to who you are and hope that social constructs don't get in the way of accomplishing your goals.

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful. But it's the intention of the work that's changed. I have fans now. I have a new purpose: to remind them that I am one of them, that we are one another. My consciousness has changed.

I like you just the way I am.

I'm destined to live and say things.

I'm eccentric, what else? I don't know, I've got two people telling me what to say.

A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.

How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?