Quotes About Self-expression

The whole motivation for any performer is 'Look at me, Ma.'

In America, your ancestors don't matter so much. You're just you .

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.

We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

And instead of getting all gushy and apologizing for being politically incorrect, Jacky Hart just laughs.

Every human being . . . illustrates with their lives how he or she thinks a human being is supposed to live.

Owen is Owen. No one gets to tell him how to live his life. Not you, not me, and not some author nobody. Owen gets to choose how his life story goes, and no one, let alone his idiot fictional self, gets to take that away from him.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

I won't be listed and labeled or tabbed and tagged, said Clode. If I want a book, I'll get a book.

It doesn't do anyone any good to live one life and hide another.

As part of it, some teachers created a behavioral checklist for her in tenth grade. It was a prescription for how to fit in: Don't talk so much in class; keep it to a sound bite. Don't be so aggressive. Don't answer all the questions. Don't discuss things so much. Tone it down. Don't challenge the classroom status quo.

Do not be a follower, because others like it, but be different want You like it. Jan Jansen

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

No, I must keep to my own style and go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

Run mad as often as you chuse, but do not faint.

Don't act yourself, if you do not like it, but don't expect to govern everybody else.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but like every body else in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

At any rate, it is safer to leave people to their own devices on such subjects. Everybody likes to go their own way—to choose their own time and manner of devotion