Quotes About Self-expression

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be." —Leto Atreides II The Harq al-Ada Biography

Copilul care refuz? s? mearg? în lesa tat?lui - acesta este simbolul supremei capacit??i a omului. "Nu am a fi ceea ce a fost tat?l meu. Nu am a m? supune regulilor stabilite de tat?l meu sau a crede tot ce-a crezut el. Ca fiin?? uman?, forÈ›a mea const? în aceea c? pot s? aleg singur ce s? cred È™i ce s? nu cred, ce s? fiu È™i ce s? nu fiu.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

I am as I am, and that's all there is to it, I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person...

È ridicolo come ti sei bardato per questo mondo.

It seems hard to remain a bachelor...to model your appearance and behaviour on one or two bachelors remembered from your youth. That is how it will be, only that in reality it will be you yourself standing there, today and later, with a body and a real head, and so with a brow too, to strike with your hand.

I'm not suggesting that you don't master German. Most of the time you master it surprisingly well and if once in a while you don't, it bows before you of its own accord, and this is particularly pleasing, for this is something a German doesn't dare to expect from his language, he doesn't dare to write so personally.

A lot of people produce podcasts in which they simply ramble on for hours about themselves and their lives. There is something very poignant about the volume of human desire to be heard out there in the Wild West of podcasts.

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

Ali was the African-American who exulted in saying exactly what he was capable of, and the bouncing-boy braggadocio of hip-hop is impossible to imagine without him. So it makes sense that one of his spiritual children, the sunny-dispositioned rapper turned actor Will Smith, would play him.

I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and I want people to call me William - for now.

I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.

I never walk into a room and say, 'Hi! I am Vanessa Williams' daughter.' It helps me to become more authentic.

My theory is if Tony Williams can sing, and if Kanye West can sing, so can I! So I try!

I could have took the easy way and just been a cowboy, looking good, trying to make my money off Hank Williams and being this clean-cut guy. But I always wanted to be myself and go against the grain.

You should be unique, you should be confident, and that's how people remember who you are. You have to be willing to share who you are and your story.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it's going to take to get you on the radio.

I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.

I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.

The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.

I miss the willingness to go your own path and be original.

I mean, the title of my show is my name. That's not because I was an established voice. It's because of a rising number of outlets, and an increased willingness to take risks. All the sudden, people like me are finding themselves in the position to make things.