Brendan Schaub Quotes

I think we are all individuals at the end of the day. There's nothing about culture that can prescribe who you're meant to be.

My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.

Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm John Michael Creaux Rebennack. I'm proud of them names.

I don't use labels a lot.

I'm just like you, only I'm different because I'm me.

I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At the time, I wished I had a name that blended in more with my surroundings. Now, though, I've really learned to love it. From fifteen, I really liked it. It felt appropriate. Before that, I don't think it quite fitted me. I had to grow into it.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

Individuality is that which you bring into the world.

My choices are like my fingerprints, they make me unique

The years between leaving school and actually becoming an adult are very important years. You make a lot of choices as to the type of life you want to lead and what type of person you want to be. There were so many people who had opinions of me, a lot of them very unflattering, that it was hard to make up my mind about who I was supposed to be.

I wish someone could get rid of individuality so easily; one never gets rid of one's individuality completely. One gets rid of one's egotism, which is a very different matter.

Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."

Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.

Be sure that whatever you are is you.

Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.

People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.

There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished.

You, quote, find your voice, unquote, when you are able to invent this one character who resembles you, obviously, and probably is more like you than anyone else on earth, but is not the equivalent to you.

This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

I know that I am very much like everybody else, but not really.

The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have several identities, I only have one, made of all the elements that have shaped its unique proportions.

Don't imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.