Quotes About Authenticity

If you can't handle me in sweatpants, you don't deserve me in stilettos

If you can't handle can't handle me in sweatpants, You don't deserve me in stilettos

Oh, why do I even care what other people think?

She wasn't any kind of show pony.

I had to own that I admired her for listening to her own heart rather than having her life ruled by others' conventions.

He leaned into Darley's flank and felt the horse respond with gentle acceptance. Only horses were honest, in the end.

What I do is me, for that I came.

Ik speel de rol die ik ben.

U bent toch Gerard Reve, die het altijd over één ding tegelijk heeft, en pas als hij dat afgehandeld heeft verder gaat met iets anders? U bent toch een gewone katholieke volksjongen en geen volksverlakker? Nu, het doet mij echt goed dat van U te horen, waaruit blijkt dat U mijn werk begrijpt en waardeert.

Waar gebeurd is geen excuus.

Everyone back the fuck up! I am not that pretty!

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

Be whoever you are extremely loud and be completely fearless when you do it.

Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive.

You're going to come across a lot of shitty bands and a lot of shitty people and if any of those people call you names because of what you look like or because they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherfucker, stick up your middle finger, and scream Fuck you!

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

Female is real, and it's sex, and femininity is unreal, and it's gender.

As far as cosmetics are used for adornment in a conscious and creative way, they are not emblems of inauthenticity: it is when they are presented as the real thing, covering unsightly blemishes, disguising a repulsive thing so that it is acceptable to the world that their function is deeply suspect. The women who dare not go out without their false eyelashes are in serious psychic trouble.

We still make love to organs and not people.

whatever else we are or may pretend to be, we are certainly our bodies

What flatterers say, try to make true.

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.