Quotes About Acceptance

Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

I'm okay, you're okay. Now let's go to work.

The Bottom Line: If people don't LOVE our work, we will not be able to sell what we make.

Relationships are not tailor-made and people are flawed. You have to work around that and love the other person anyway. Our flaws are what make us unique.

I actually stopped working out because I don't want to lose my jelly.

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

I'm in a position to work on good things. I've worked on shitty projects, in the past. But, it is what it is. I'm just taking it as it comes.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.

People can identify as however you want to. Right on. Go for it. But my strategy in this bigger game of life is to not identify as anything.

Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.

I think people could get obsessed with the idea of perfection. So with that, you kind of stray away from your raw imperfections. Like, I don't think people realize that people are OK with you missing a note here or hearing the rasp in your voice.

There is a heavy Mexican Catholic streak in my movies, and a huge Mexican sense of melodrama. Everything is overwrought, and there's a sense of acceptance of the fantastic in my films, which is innately Mexican. So when people ask, 'How can you define the Mexican-ness of your films?' I go, 'How can I not?' It's all I am.

When I will be the prime minister of Israel, I will embrace all streams of Judaism.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don't have any flaws.

I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.

When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.

And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.

When I see gay people holding hands or kissing in the streets, I just don't think that's right.

When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.

Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the '70s and through the hospital wards of the '80s and onwards to the streets.

Boys have been wearing skirts for some time now. My three assistants wear mini skirts. They come to work on their motorcycles wearing mini skirts. The French saw the idea on the streets and have done it in better fabrics, and now everyone says, 'Ah!'

If you dance alone on the streets, people might call you crazy, but when so many people dance together, it's a party.