Quotes About Self

You know, I never really thought of myself as a 'celebrity.' One of the titles that I like least is 'celebrity chef.'

I don't like nicknames, to be honest.

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

I'm not really that comfortable, to be honest, singing about my darkest moments.

I focus on myself and my teammates. I don't really care about what other people have going on, to be honest.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and 'superlive,' as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

I trust myself. You need that to survive.

Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, 'I am not going to think today; I am too tired'? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.

My mom called me 'Stinky Binky' as a toddler, and I started to refer to myself as, 'I'm Binkie.'

I kinda motivate myself and keep me on my toes.

Internally, we have so many different parts, both positive and negative. And if you force them together, a spark comes out.

I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

Autoimmunity is probably the next frontier. The majority of cases of autoimmune disease result from a complex genetic problem that has environmental influences. It is a colossal task for the immune system to maintain tolerance to self and yet be ready to react to everything in the world around us.

On the other hand, I'm very tolerant as well. I expect that everybody can play what they want. I'm only not tolerant when it comes to myself and what is presented on my album that I have to listen to for the rest of my life.

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

But it is a mistake to think news happens somewhere else. To others. The news is always about you.

But it is a mistake to think news happens somewhere else. To others. The news is always about you. You must simply fit yourself in it. You must see how—you must be vigilant.

Housed within a woman, the doctor thought, were rooms of undisclosed shapes and sizes, and a woman may live a life and never open but two or three, and live within them quite happily. But there were those who twisted and turned within the windy stairwells of their selves, opening doors to rooms and peering in upon possible worlds unmatched in the exterior.

America was invented out of a desire for rebirth, for fresh starts. It was the place where a man could be the author of himself, reinventing himself as an aristocrat, but somehow these stories of renaissance kept ending in murder.

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

This is my skin and not just the bag that keeps everything together.

The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.