Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Muhammad AliYou can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I’m not going to freak out about it. I’m not that bad. I’m certainly not a boy, and it’s been a while since I’ve been a chef.
Anthony BourdainI am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
Lady GagaIn one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
Christopher HitchensI am not a crook.
Richard M. NixonI’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.
Lana Del ReyI’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!
David BowieHair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.
Lady GagaIt is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.
Russell M. NelsonWhen I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
Lady GagaPeople should make up their own mind about what they think of me.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.
Nelson MandelaIf I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.
Kendrick LamarI definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.
Bruno MarsI actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.
Lady GagaGod has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William ShakespeareThere are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWe are the people our parents warned us about.
Jimmy BuffettGod is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma GandhiA poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.
Bob DylanI re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
David BowieWhen I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren’t for Toronto.
DrakeI’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.
Christopher HitchensThe ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
Wayne DyerWhen people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.
BonoBelief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
George EliotI hope not to define myself by suffering.
Frank OceanWe construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.
Paul AusterBy denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Galileo GalileiI never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.
Abby Lee MillerI even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.
George BestAt the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Lao TzuI was ill, and everyone could see it but me.
George BestThe woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Henry AdamsI am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.
EminemThe nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
George OrwellThe faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
George Bernard ShawI think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.
Jerry SeinfeldI have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
Marilyn MonroeYou call yourself what you want to call yourself.
Bob DylanDenial ain’t just a river in Egypt.
Mark TwainIt is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWhen people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
Eckhart TolleI still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.
Robert KiyosakiThough silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
Marcus Tullius CiceroRemember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor RooseveltIt’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.
Thich Nhat HanhI always think of myself as a working girl.
Dolly PartonMany people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
Eckhart TolleThe world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.
Robert GreeneOnce you’ve changed who you are or who you’ve portrayed in your music, the fans, they’ll catch it… Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
The WeekndI never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.
Taylor SwiftOne’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar WildeSome people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren’t happening.
Joyce Meyer