David Lowery Quotes

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

we are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences

People say, 'What if your name was Niki Smith?' Well, if Niki Smith lived the life I've lived, it would have great bearing.

I want an identity outside of my work.

Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm John Michael Creaux Rebennack. I'm proud of them names.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

No one man can take on the mantle of another.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

My goal is to be able to fill out one of those forms that asks 'Who are you?' and be able to just put 'Human being,' you know?

Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

Through life's ups and downs, and the few mistakes we make and all the successes that we get, let nobody - nobody's opinion - define who you are. And if anybody defines who you are, let it be yourself.

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

I don't really identify myself as white or African-American. I'm just me. I'm Madison.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I'm a man at the end of the day.

I'm insanely curious about life and everyone's story and where they come from and how they got to be who they are.

At the end of the day, before basketball, before anything, I'm a man.

The years between leaving school and actually becoming an adult are very important years. You make a lot of choices as to the type of life you want to lead and what type of person you want to be. There were so many people who had opinions of me, a lot of them very unflattering, that it was hard to make up my mind about who I was supposed to be.