Dick Dale Quotes

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me.

I know who I am. People who know me know who I am. That's all that matters.

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

It's very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that's so much harder.

I'm not an evangelist Christian at all. I can't try to convert anybody. It's not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn't have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to.

All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.

I've come more to terms with the fact that I sound like myself. No matter what I do, I sound like myself.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.

Being outspoken about my faith isn't just something that I do; it's who I am because my faith isn't just a little piece of my life. It is my life. It's not a question of whether I'm outspoken about it or not. I'm definitely not ashamed of it.

You can feel I am whatever you want to feel I am. God knows who I am, and I know who I am.

I guess the word to call me is my name, Pete.

With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.

I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

I try to be authentically who I am.

So few humans seem to fully exist themselves that I wonder if all this endless speculation and haggling about God is really an exploration of a more interesting and embarrassing question about ourselves.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah - they get to know you and they sense something genuine.

Politicians have to be themselves because if they are not, in the end, the people will see through it.