Quotes About Self

Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

My only experience in the world of tiaras was as a contestant in a homecoming queen pageant that featured all the high school homecoming queens in the South. While I did not win (much less place), I did walk away from the experience with a renewed sense of self confidence and ambition.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

I'm quite fair and I need to protect myself with a good ball cap. Any time I can rep the Jays or the Leafs is great.

The ego always needs to be 'doing,' and repeating a mantra guides my mind to a deeper, less active experience.

Part of a campaign reporter's job is allowing yourself to be used.

Our worst instincts as human beings have to do with our carelessness with natural resources, and when the body itself becomes just one more of those resources, how will we treat it? Will we treat it with such indifference and with such depersonalization that it becomes more like a very fancy car than a repository of the self?

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.

As a composer, I'm basically trying to represent myself through my music in an honest way.

The masks were more of a representation of what you wanted to present as yourself.

I started using this outlet of creativity - you know, going to the studio, writing, meeting these writers and producers - as the best form of representing myself to my fullest potential.

Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and the downfall that followed are very contemporary.

I really just prefer to be exactly who I am, and black is really the closest race and cultural category that represents the essence of who I am.

I kind of think of my life as this incredible hurricane of so many adventures. We can all make a difference, and we can all be courageous and believe in ourselves.

A little makeover never hurt nobody.

I mean, I would never want to do anything to hurt my family, but then again I would never want to do anything to hurt myself. And I think they go hand in hand.

For the higher interest of the nation, you've got to be capable of hurting yourself.

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

I just don't believe the hype. I just don't take myself too seriously. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

I ain't no icon. It's people like Patti LaBelle, somebody like that's an icon. I'm just Missy. I'm just crazy, that's all.

I don't consider myself an icon.