Quotes About Authenticity

Ya no temo mi vulnerabilidad, porque no la confundo con debilidad; puedo vivir con los brazos, las puertas y el corazón abiertos.

He was proud of his calloused hands with cracked nails and dry red skin. "Working hands, honest hands," he'd say.

In brief, I am in a splendid moment of my destiny. This is good news for women in general: Life gets easier once we get through menopause and are done with raising kids, but only if we minimize our expectations, give up resentment, and relax in the knowledge that no one, except those closest to us, gives a damn about who we are or what we do. Stop pretending, faking it, lamenting, and flagellating ourselves about silly stuff. We have to love ourselves a lot and love others without calculating

El problema con la ficción es que debe ser creíble, en cambio la realidad rara vez lo es.

ya no hago concesiones fácilmente; adiós a los tacones altos, las dietas y la paciencia con los tontos; y he aprendido a decir que NO a lo que no me agrada sin sentirme culpable. Mi vida es mejor ahora, pero no me interesa el reposo del guerrero, prefiero mantener algo de ardor en la mente y la sangre.

I was very serious about journalism, even though colleagues from that time believe that I invented my reports. I didn't invent them, I merely exaggerated slightly.

I do not fear my vulnerability because I no longer confuse it with weakness.

We can speak up because we don't care to compete, to please, or to be popular.

Me conformo con envejecer alegremente y para ese fin tengo algunas reglas: ya no hago concesiones fácilmente; adiós a los tacones altos, las dietas y la paciencia con los tontos; y he aprendido a decir que NO a lo que no me agrada sin sentirme culpable.

Mi vida está hecha de apariencias, no verdades.

New Zealand is such a down-to-earth place.

I'm just this kid from New Zealand, to be honest. My life has changed, but I'm still that same kid, and I don't think that will ever change.

We are part of the zeitgeist, and we are communicating in a human, real way.

I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.

Our intent with Led Zeppelin was not to get caught up in the singles' market, but to make albums where you could really flex your muscles - your musical intellect, if you like - and challenge yourself.

Growing up, I was listening to a ton of Motown music, Otis Redding, Aretha, and then there was the Beatles and Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin. These were all people that I felt as though they truly felt every single lyric they said, and they weren't afraid of imperfection.

You get a chance like that maybe once in your lifetime, and you are lucky to sustain it over that period of time. It doesn't mean to say that whatever I do in the future has no substance to it - I may present some new material I've got, and there are definitely new angles of doing it - but I'm not looking to recreate another Led Zeppelin.

That's one of the problems with the Zeppelin stuff. It sounds ridiculous on MP3. You can't hear what's there properly.

So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It's like when Led Zeppelin appears in Cadillac commercials. There's something that is taken away from your love of this thing and your connection to it.

I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin.

If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it.

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands.

Led Zeppelin wasn't a corporate entity.

When the blues came out, it was something pure and undefined, but when all these white groups got hold of it, it became something else that didn't sound anything like the original. So you had Led Zeppelin doing their thing, which had come all the way from the blues.