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Quotes About Self-expression

It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.
~ Maggie Q
Who am I to say to you what I'm saying?
~ Mahmoud Darwish
Don't you know that boys don't cry?' Adam grinned. 'Shall I tell you something I've only recently discovered,' I replied, not attempting to hide the tears rolling down my face and not the least bit ashamed of them. 'Boys don't cry, but real men do.
~ Malorie Blackman
When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.
~ Manal al-Sharif
You put high heels on and you change.
~ Manolo Blahnik
Let people know when you feel unhappy, disappointed, or hurt about something. Once the feeling has been acknowledged by you—not necessarily by others—it tends to dissipate and is less likely to trouble you. If you hold your feelings inside, you are apt to explode at some minor incident, potentially causing still more harm to your health. Own up to what is in your heart and make peace with it forever.
~ Unknown
These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.
~ Marc Andreessen
Je n'appartient pas à un système, j'ai toujours lutté contre ça. Je vois les gens que j'aime, je vais là où je veux aller, je lis un livre parce qu'il m'attire et non parce qu'il faut absolument l'avoir lu et toute ma vie est comme cela.
~ Marc Levy
I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.
~ Marc Maron
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
~ Marcel Duchamp
One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.
~ Marcel Proust
We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.
~ Marcel Proust
When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.
~ Marcel Proust
When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance if catching someone's interest.
~ Marcel Proust
May the expectation in other eyes Never decide how you are to be;
~ John O'Donohue
I don't think it matters what age you are when you figure it out," Brous said. "I think the important thing is to figure it out before someone else tells you what you want to be, and they get it wrong.
~ John Scalzi
She said that we could all fuck ourselves with a rented dick. The same rented dick." "That's my mom," Kiva said.
~ John Scalzi
I'm not even one year old," Jared said. "I can be a baby if I want.
~ John Scalzi
Kiva considered that she might be developing a thing for Fundapellonan, which on one hand would be a very not-Kiva thing to do, but on the other hand who gave a fuck if it was "not-Kiva," because she wasn't some fucking fictional character destined to do whatever some goddamn hack wanted her to do.
~ John Scalzi
Passion in this context refers to a sustained and deep commitment to achieving our full potential and greater capacity for self-expression in a domain that engages us on a personal level.
~ John Seely Brown
Names are a great mystery. I've never known whether the name is molded by the child or the child changed to fit the name. But you can be sure of this- whenever a human has a nickname it is a proof that the name given him was wrong.
~ John Steinbeck
Thou art a peanut.
~ John Steinbeck
I was afraid I had you in me. No, I haven't. I'm my own. I don't have to be you. I just know. It just came to me whole. If I'm mean, it's my own mean.
~ John Steinbeck
There are several ways to wear a hat or a cap. A man may express himself in the pitch or tilt of a hat, but not with a helmet. It won't go on any other way. It sits level on the head, low over eyes and ears, low on the back of the neck. With your helmet on you are a mushroom in a bed of mushrooms.
~ John Steinbeck