Quotes About Self-definition

I think in some ways we have allowed other people to set the agenda. Other people to define who we are.

Not having a great relationship with my brother Aaron, or what people think that relationship should be, didn't define me.

I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.

I define myself.

Black people have to define who we are, or others do it for us.

I don't want people to define me. That's the best way for an actor to grow.

Snoop ain't never cosigned me, but I know everybody is like, 'That's the next Snoop.' Nah, I'm Nipsey, and I got to work to define myself.

I have lived life enough to know that I define myself.

This is not me, WWE doesn't define who Ashley is.

I was 15 when I did Rufio and now I've been Rufio for more of my life than I haven't been. Wrestling with that is always interesting because you don't want to be fully defined by it, but at the same time it's you, and you don't want to be ashamed of you either.

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

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

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.

How dull it is to have people defining you.

I can't define myself. And I'm really happy about this, that I'm not able to make a definition of, even of my work.

To defer to someone else's definition of a life well-lived is a Faustian bargain.

With time, I believe, a day would come when people have their own definitions of Jung Ho-yeon as an actor.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

I will no longer enter into the all-American skin game that demands you select a box and define yourself by it.

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

I'm not letting TV dictate who I really am.

Remembering who I am is a really active task for me. And I often have to tell myself, 'You're a graduate student,' 'You're a daughter,' et cetera, in situations where I'm supposed to behave like one.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.