Quotes About Authenticity

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous

Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.

Non si può costruire una reputazione basata sull'intenzione di fare qualcosa.

People's hearts are often opened when they speak freely.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be

It has the added advantage of being true.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

I want someone who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.

One day, I stopped hating. I ceased all meaningless activity. I completed the circle. I Set my sights straight. Like an Arrow I flew. I stopped acting. I got tired of playing with you. Random violence and destruction Because my reason for living, my out, My excuse. What is your excuse? Destruction. Without hate, without fear, Without judgement. I am no better Than you. No-one knows this better Than I do. I just got tired of playing Parlor Games.