Quotes About Identity

I think everyone in high school at one point feels like they're on the outside observing what's going on. Even if you're very popular, you have an outsider experience.

People have disliked me. You know, in high school, I wasn't the most popular kid. I wasn't the nerdiest kid. I was kind of in the middle.

I wasn't the most popular kid in school.

Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular.

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident.

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.

Popular culture is filled with girls.

Drag has been featured in popular culture for decades. Movies like 'Kinky Boots,' 'Tootsie,' 'The Birdcage' - even 'Mrs. Doubtfire' - have showcased men, some gay, some not, who dress and perform as women.

The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore.

America is, in many ways, as much an idea as it is a country. And Americans have long marketed that idea around the world through our popular culture.

When I was younger I didn't feel I was represented in popular culture - you couldn't get a brown doll in the shops and you didn't see many brown people on TV.

I make popular music but I'm not necessarily a pop produce.

I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don't have a lot.

You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

Every time I step out there in the Octagon, I aim to do Australia proud. And this isn't for popularity or a fan base; it has never been for that. It's just because I love my country, and I want to show the world what we're doing down here.

I have never been attracted to increasing my popularity or hireability by being on Instagram.

I can't explain my popularity. I suppose I'm just an ordinary bloke, and a lot of people see a little bit of Eddie in themselves.

The popularity's got its pluses and minuses, and there are many days that I would rather just be a Christian and not known at all, but that's not what God has called me to do.

There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

I grew up in East Los Angeles, which is the biggest population of Mexican-Americans in America. I was born and raised there.

The population of Hindus is 100 crore. So obviously India is a Hindu Rashtra.