Quotes About Belonging

Belong to a religion? Doesn't bother me if you do, as long as it's not one that says to stop thinking and be loud about it.

Remember the key to life," Serge shouted over the engine. "Always act like you deserve to be here.

I am a Bay Area guy, no question.

It's no secret that I love the country, and Japan has always felt like a second home to me.

It's no secret that Ajax is my club.

Like any other kid, I was trying so hard to fit in that school made no sense to me. I wasn't attending class; I was trying to hang out in the caf with the cool kids. I was always trying to be cool.

L.A. hasn't changed me that much - I've not forgotten where I'm from, you know. And I need to find a haggis, but no-one seems to sell them over here.

When I go back home, I am just Jess, no-one special.

I belong to everybody, and I belong to nobody.

I'm nobody, who are you?

My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and our home was a shrine to all things English.

Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people.

It's so nice to be nominated for something by your culture, it's always very cool.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

I'm a dual citizen in a way. I live in the States and have a green card, so my connection to British politics is almost nonexistent.

The film 'Documented,' a project of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Define American campaign, is about my families: the family I was blessed to be born into, and the family of friends, mentors and allies that I found when I moved to the United States at 12, a Filipino kid trying to make sense of my new home in America.

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.

I have always been interested in people who live outside of the fabric of the norm.

I just want to be like other people that are normal.

I like my friends because they make me feel normal, even though I'm not.

All I've ever wanted is to be normal.

Since I can remember, being different was always hard around normal people. That's just how it is, whether you have vitiligo, a deformity, or a different way of thinking or dressing. It's going to always be weird for normal people.

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.