Ben Harper Quotes

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

I don't know anymore where I begin and Obama ends.

Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not The Naked Guy, I don't care.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

I want people to understand why I'm not 'P1' or 'P2.'

I'm never quite sure if I'm me when I'm dressed up.

If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

Many times I feel different like a different person.

He hated crowds, never liked punk. He couldn't handle the nakedness of the rage -his own so sophisticated and finely tuned. He could never see the similarity between himself and Donnie Draino screaming into a mic.

Social man lives constantly outside himself.

You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.

Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.

You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.

I don't really see myself that way, as some typical sexy young ingénue. I've never been that way. And, for a while, there was a disconnect between who I am and how I present myself on a public platform. That was because I didn't necessarily feel comfortable sharing that much of myself with other people who I didn't know.

But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's ahrdly enough of me left to make one respectable person!

I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in - how clever you are. I put down "Kit Harington," and they looked at me like I was completely stupid, and they said, "No, you're Christopher Harington, I'm afraid." It was only then I learnt my actual name. That was kind of a bizarre existential crisis for an 11-year-old to have, but in the end I always stuck with Kit, because I felt that's who I was. I'm not really a "Chris."