Hideo Kojima Quotes

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

I've become someone else, really, like a role model.

Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames. I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it's something that's reserved for only the people who are closest to me. It's not because I don't like my given name; it's that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is - you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past.

I used to be someone.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

I used to be.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

I used to be called Waddy Jones. But I changed my name to Ninja because it's more me.

There's a difference between Bhad Bhabie and Danielle, yes.

Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.

Ask any human being alive if they're the same person they were seven years ago and they're going to tell you they aren't.

The solution begins with a deeper transformation that must occur in each of us. I AM isn’t as much about what you can do, as who you can be. And from that transformation of being, action will naturally follow.

It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.

If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.

After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!

For one cannot change, that is to say become another person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one no longer is.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.

There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection to your former life is like a dream or delirium, and that person who you once were is merely a fond acquaintance, or a beloved character from a storybook. This is how memory becomes nostalgia. They are two very different things - the same way that a person is different from a photograph of a person.