What I’m denying is that I’m this cutthroat financier.

We 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.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

You 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.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

It’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.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

I always think of myself as a working girl.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren’t for Toronto.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

When 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.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

When 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.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

I 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.

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.

I definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

Some 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.

I’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

The 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.

Once 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.

I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

I am not a crook.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

I 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.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

I 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.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

The 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.

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

It 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.

The 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.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

I’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!

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

In 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.