Michelle Obama Quotes

I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.

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.

I want an identity outside of my work.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I'm not Miley Cyrus. There may be some similarities, but I'm my own person.

I don't fight like Mike Tyson. I'm nothing at all like Mike Tyson. I'm out to build my own legacy and not live off anyone else's name.

Everyone is different, and each has to create his or her own path, irrespective of who their parents are.

I've always wanted to be my own person. Even when I was 'Noah who rode horses,' I wanted to be Noah Cyrus, not anyone else or a family member.

Every kid is going to be his or her own individual, they all have their own style of doing things.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

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

True individuality can be lonely.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

You need to be your own individual.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

I am definitely an individual.

If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of?

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.