It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CummingsEveryone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.
Robert GreeneWhen the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn’t truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn’t come from your spirit and your soul, it’s an injustice to your position. And so, I’m really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.
Lady GagaI’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?
Mr. TI’d rather tell you how I really feel.
DrakeI think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.
Taylor SwiftAlways be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Bruce LeeWhen someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Maya AngelouIt could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.
Conor McGregorI love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I’ve done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it’s nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.
Bruno MarsEvery man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.
Tom BradyTruth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
George EliotI write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.
Paulo CoelhoNever pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan WattsI fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.
Charles SpurgeonDeeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.
Kevin HartWhy do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
SocratesI don’t really have a gimmick or a ‚thing.‘ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.
DrakeThe most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
PlatoI wish they would only take me as I am.
Vincent Van GoghAlways be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.
Harry S. TrumanWithout culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Albert CamusThose outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.
Billy GrahamSelf-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.
David GogginsI looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.
John KennedyWanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
Kurt CobainI feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.
Taylor SwiftIt’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.
Robert KiyosakiI’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.
Bad BunnyI’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.
Anne FrankKnow, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
EpictetusI don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.
RihannaOne of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.
Taylor SwiftI just don’t feel like I have to explain myself.
Dolly PartonYeah, I’m an open book.
Amy WinehouseThey’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.
Angelina JolieI want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.
Stephen CurryNever apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Benjamin DisraeliI don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.
Taylor SwiftAs long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.
Kendrick LamarI’m not trying to be fashionable. Never was!
Dolly PartonSometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.
Kendrick LamarIt is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
Virginia WoolfSincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
Lao TzuIf we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius CiceroPeople who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
George CarlinI can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.
Joyce MeyerMy writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don’t want it smoothed out.
Charles BukowskiI tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?
Vivienne WestwoodThere’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.
Clint EastwoodI’m not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.
Dave GrohlHard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Coco ChanelI never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.
Taylor SwiftI’ve definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it’s a little more raw.
Bruno MarsI want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.
ConfuciusThat man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan PoeUse what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.
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