Quotes About Acceptance

I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.

I don't really feel the need to defend myself for having a six-pack.

Sometimes, you just have to take what the defense gives you.

I'm not the kind of guy who gets defensive after something goes wrong.

Everybody has to play for their team and accept his role, even if you are in a defensive position sometimes. That is the key if you want to have success.

If you're defensive, you defend what you have, but you get nothing more. You don't get bigger.

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

I am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.

We don't really get to see gay characters who are completely open with their sexuality, but it doesn't define who they are.

I think that's a place where we are, as a society, finally starting to get to now: where your sexuality doesn't have to define you - and you don't have to define it.

Just as basketball doesn't define who I am, neither does being gay.

Love is love. Family is family. A family's sexuality does not define the wonderful parent that they can be for their children.

And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.

I turned down a lot of work. I didn't want to ever feel defined by my ethnicity.

I'm very open to being defined.

A defining moment takes a long time to get over, if you ever do.

We have the eurozone. Could we accept to be cleared, regulated, and de facto have inflows and outflows from a country that has decided to leave the E.U.? For me, definitely not.

Hopefully, if we stop using the term plus-size we can just create a broader definition for what a model is.

I am a degenerate, and I know that.

Before coming out, I remember distinctly feeling like there was a delay on my life.

Delhi - the entire north - has given me so much love. It has given me an identity, so I have no shame in being called a Delhi dude.

I was delighted when I heard Bournemouth wanted to take me and I've started off well.

My place is cemented in Malayalam films. Malayalam is not my language and it felt alien to me. But for them, I am someone from Karnataka who could deliver.

I'm so grateful for my endless delusion.