Quotes About Authenticity

Just be who you are, Luigi. Everybody else is already taken.

Better, perhaps, to dress like a whore around the clock and thus achieve a fully integrated personality.

To be in love with someone means believing that to be in someone else's presence is the only means of being, completely, yourself.

remaining adolescent means rejecting all compensatory lies about one's life...

Oh Dick, you eroticise what you're not, secretly hoping that the other person knows what you're performing and that they're performing too.

The difference between now and fifteen years ago is I don't think I was able, ever, to write any of those notebooks then in the 1st Person. I had to find these ciphers for myself because whenever I tried writing in the 1st Person it sounded like some other person, or else the tritest most neurotic parts of myself that I wanted so badly to get beyond. Now I can't stop writing in the 1st Person, it feels like it's the last chance I'll ever have to figure some of this stuff out.

you eroticize what you're not, secretly hoping that the other person knows what you're performing and that they're performing too.

continually exposing myself to whatever situation occurs… Gambling as well as gamboling… To exist instead of being an existentialist, to make objects instead of being one

We've met a few times and I've felt a lot of sympathy towards you and a desire to be closer... I had a feeling that somehow I knew you and we could just be what we are together.

Long before love is a corporate virtue that improves team performance, it is a personal leadership stance. The love-driven leader possesses the vision to see and engage others as they are, not through the cultural filters, prejudices, or narrow-mindedness that diminishes them.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

We aren't cool and never will be.

I don't mind not being cool.

I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other.

He'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfashionable persona he presented, but, perhaps, BECAUSE of it.

It's about being genuine with it and being yourself—just bringing out the creativeness, not doing the same thing everybody else is doing, regardless of whether it don't break through or pop off immediately.

You did not become born again or receive the Holy Spirit through a bottle of oil or a mantle. So you don't need them to live your life!

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

If a homeless person has a funny sign, he hasn't been homeless for that long. A real homeless person is too hungry to be funny.

When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them, you're meeting their representative.

LaHaye's claim that no historian to date has questioned this prayer book's authenticity is a flat-out lie. Historians began questioning its authenticity almost as soon as its discovery was reported. In fact, it had already been rejected by the Smithsonian Institution even before its discovery was reported.

People liked to pretend, but when you knew the truth you could see nothing but the lie.

I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.