Samuel Johnson Quotes

I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do, I say what's on my mind.

Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.

If you don't toot your own horn, someone else will use it as a spittoon.

Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?

Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.

Whatever you put in your listing, make sure that it's a true representation of the property and it's not dishonest.

Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that.

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

Sometimes it seems like this is the choice - either kick ass or kiss ass.

Sometimes it just feels so amazing to finally stand up for yourself. I highly recommend it. Life is too short to be taken for granted.

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

I’ve just had enough of people misrepresenting me. Get to know me and see who I am.

I've never really seen myself in the role of the victim.

Tell the truth as soon as you know it.

You have to put yourself in my shoes as a person who believes in radical truth and in being radically transparent, not in seeing things through somebody else's eyes.

Be what you would seem to be.

We need to get women to the point where they aren't apologizing. Its time to take ownership in our success.

We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

I wish I had known that it's OK to stand up for myself. That it's also OK to not be liked but to be respected, and I always want to be liked.

I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.

There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

Truth and clarity are complementary.