Tariq Ali Quotes

What makes a girl a girl? What makes a guy a guy? Do you have to be what they want you to be? Or do you stop and listen to that voice inside you? I know who I am. I'm Petra West. And I'm a girl. You want me to sleep somewhere else, fine. Whatever. But I'm not going to pretend to be somebody I'm not. I've done enough of that.

Let's get with it, guys: You don't need to hear a Ministry song to get political. You should be political on your own. We're just a side project to society. So do I care what people think about me personally? No. I just do what I do.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.

I feel comfortable putting my political stances out there without feeling as though I am filling some sort of quota. I don't have a wokeness quota for the day.

I think I'm pretty confident, and I know I'm different than everyone else, so I'm going to do what's me.

But at the end of the day, I'm a girl. I'm from Santa Monica. I'm going to look how I want to look and play how I want to play, and if people don't like it, then they don't like it.

The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.

If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you're just yourself, people respond to that.

I don't do anything to impress anyone, quite successfully I can tell you.

How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

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

You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.

I dress the way I want. I don't pretend to be someone I'm not.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.

I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.

I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me.

At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.

I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.