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Quotes About Self-perception

When you're struggling to survive, no one gets to label you a coward, not even you yourself in your private thoughts.
~ Sara Paretsky
Maybe the best reputation is no reputation. Maybe it's best not to care whatsoever how people see you. Maybe the only thing that really matters is how you see yourself.
~ Sara Shepard
Maybe the only thing that really matters is how you see yourself.
~ Sara Shepard
Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.
~ Lena Dunham
All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.
~ Bea Arthur
The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.
~ Jodie Foster
She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
~ Carson McCullers
Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I'm not aware of being overweight.
~ Daphne Merkin
I don't want to be myself, ever. I'm terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I've got facial Tourette's. Unless I'm working and in that zone, I'm not very good at pictures, really.
~ Kate Moss
We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens.
~ Nichole Nordeman
Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.
~ Ricki Lake
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my faults.
~ Dick Cheney
That's like the fourth time I've been called a women in this past hour. It's really starting to boost my self-esteem.
~ Drew Chadwick
Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.
~ Katharine Brush
The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.
~ Martin Bashir
For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
~ Philip Pullman
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
~ William Hazlitt
She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.
~ Charles Bukowski
Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.
~ Kate Beckinsale
There's been so much media about me being a surfer dude and a lot of other jobs. I guess it's time to prove myself, to let the people know, heck, I've a brain.
~ Kato Kaelin
I have a hard time watching myself.
~ Logan Lerman
Whenever someone starts a statement with, Let me tell you the kind of guy I am, that is a great time to start sawing your own head off.
~ Dana Gould
Je sais que ce ne sont pas les vêtements qui font les femmes plus ou moins belles ni les soins de beauté, ni les prix des onguents, ni la rareté, le prix des atours. Je sais que le problème est ailleurs. Je ne sais pas où il est.
~ Marguerite Duras
She asks if she's managing to make your body less lonely. You say you can't really understand the word as applied to you. That you can't distinguish between thinking you're lonely and actually becoming lonely.
~ Marguerite Duras