Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Quotes

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

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.

I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view anything as part of being a person, so I feel okay with "marketing" or other things like that.

I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.

I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.

I'd like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

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

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.

I see bodies as individual things.

If I feel something, it's how I feel. I never say, 'I feel this way, so you should feel that way.' Not that there's anything wrong with it, but I just am who I am. But, yeah. I think you would call me a feminist.

By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.

Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else.

The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.

Ever since I was a teenager, I always had a very strong sense of my own personal style. Kind of for better or for worse - actually I don't think it's ever been for worse. The way that I dress has always been a pretty accurate reflection of my personality and my life.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

Some people might think they need to venture out on their own to create their own image. I do not have any of those kind of feelings.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.

For me, I've never really thought of myself as labeled as a shooter or whatever. People can say whatever they want.

I'm really not about changing my image.