Martin Campbell Quotes

No one is any one thing.

I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.

I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?.

You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

You are what your record says you are.

All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.

You see in others who you are.

We live our lives based on who we think we are.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden is probably the spot where the hopes for civilization are best captured. In fact, man defines himself by his garden. My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were.

I like my job but it's not who I am.

Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.

I was able to look at football as something that God was allowing me to do, not something that should define me. I couldn't take my identity from this sport.

We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.

The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy... If I try self-consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals

You never answered my question, about what you want to do with your life. Maybe my dreams aren't that complicated. Maybe I think that a job is just a job. What does that mean? Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.

Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.

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

Be sure you separate 'who you are' from 'what you have' and 'what you do'.

A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.

I have never considered myself a writer in exile because I grew up outside of my own country, because my father was a diplomat. Therefore, I grew up in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, the United States, I studied in Switzerland - so I've always had perspective on my country - I am thankful for that.

Life is about perspective and I have a different perspective from most. I am not trying to be in Hip Hop at 43 and looking like an old man. I always enjoyed business and my independence. I am an Entrepreneur.