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Quotes About Self-expression

I do music that makes me happy by challenging myself to go the extra mile and not do what everyone else is doing.
~ Jay IDK
I might not the best seamstress, I might not know how to sew, but I know how to make a garment look like a million dollars.
~ BeBe Zahara Benet
Sometimes I feel like a million dollars and sometimes I feel terrible. But I've always been open about the fact that it's OK to be human and embrace those feelings.
~ Tess Holliday
I always wanted to be in movies, but I never thought that in a million years there would be a documentary about my life.
~ Gigi Gorgeous
I don't want to be anyone's mimic.
~ Edgar Davids
I don't mind not being cool.
~ Chris Martin
The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
~ Ralph Steadman
Cristiano Ronaldo has created his own story, and now I'm creating mine.
~ Neymar
Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public.
~ Linda Ronstadt
I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.
~ Isaac Mizrahi
I have read a lot about what I am and who I am: 'mini,' a copy, simply 'more of the same.' Dear delegates, I stand before you as I am and as life made me and I am proud of that.
~ Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
My bare minimum for going out is lipstick and curled eyelashes.
~ Riley Keough
I'm not a minority: I'm a majority of one. We all are. To call someone a minority, you give them baggage, of not being full, or not being seen as full. All of us need to be seen as full human beings.
~ Jose Antonio Vargas
I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.
~ Simon Cowell
I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.
~ Karrine Steffans
'La Mancha' was a gift from me to me. I never thought for a minute it was going to be a hit.
~ Mitch Leigh
But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.
~ Thomas de Quincey
Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
~ Thomas Hardy
Most of the misery had been generated by her conventional aspect, and not by her innate sensations.
~ Thomas Hardy
Quieres sobresalir en medio de la multitud? Hazlo con tus logros y no usando un traje de payaso, así eso sea lo que usen los amantes de la moda.
~ Thomas J. Stanley
kaip lengva b?ti vis? m?gstamam, guviam, linksmam, šauniam ir s?mojingam, sukti galvas moterims, kai tu neturi ko veikti ir esi laisvas kaip paukštis, kada kiti ateina pas mylim?j? po sunkios dienos, pavarg? nuo visoki? r?pes?i? ir nebe?stengia pasirodyti taip, kaip jie nor?t?.
~ Thomas Mann
Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world must be more than an echo of the words of someone else. There is no point in being a moon to somebody else's sun, still less is there any justification for our being moons of one another, and hence darkness to one another, not one of us being a true sun.
~ Thomas Merton
In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself" I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else. Rather it seems to me that when one is too intent on "being himself" he runs the risk of impersonating a shadow.
~ Thomas Merton
The thing that crushed me was that I had never learned to dance.
~ Thomas Merton