People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.
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You are who you are, and you shouldn't ch... AIMEE TEEGARDEN I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think... HOWARD SCHULTZ But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always ... JENA MALONE I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics thi... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be p... RICKY WILLIAMS Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody sho... BARACK OBAMA you know what the best kind of organic certification would be? make an unannounced visit to a farm a... MICHAEL POLLAN I've never met Eminem; you don't meet Eminem. He has his own secret service. CHANCE THE RAPPER You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash u... RAFAEL NADAL You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything. DAVID BAILEY I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ... A. S. BYATT You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I d... CAITLYN JENNER If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what y... ADRIENNE BAILON Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are... CARLOS SANTANA I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but yo... BILLY CONNOLLY My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just becaus... GUY HAMILTON I've had some pretty rough interviews. And it's funny when people are interviewing you, and ... VANESSA BAYER There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em. YOGI BERRA It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much ... DAVID GUTERSON The truth is, people don't know me. When people don't know you, they're going to try to ... TREVOR NOAH Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you... EMMY ROSSUM I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really l... WILLIAM MOSELEY Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't wo... MARCUS SAMUELSSON Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip ab... CARRIE FISHER Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. QUENTIN CRISP I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has chan... BILLY WILLIAMS I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is... KAT GRAHAM What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are an... KATHERINE MOENNIG We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be. CHARLIE FLETCHER You are not born with beauty, your beauty is created by who you are. Your inner beauty is more impor... EMILY COUSSONS This is a place where you really are what you achieve in Houston, and that's a tremendous boon t... RICHARD KINDER When you're wearing a motorcycle helmet, people don't know who you are. So I just wander aro... ZAC BROWN You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderfu... IMOGEN POOTS You don't really know who you're going to fall in love with at what time in their life. They... KIRSTEN DUNST When you have the strength to stand up for yourself ,the ones you love and the dignity and honor to ... GARY F EVANS... We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted... JOHN GREEN When you have the strength to stand up for yourself ,the ones you love and the dignity and honor to ... GARY F EVANS... who are you really? you are not a name or a height, or a weight or a gende... M.K What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are. DAVID O. MCKAY I was weird right from the start. It's just that you can't ever expect people to get you. An... HELENA BONHAM CARTER I wanted to show these people who he really was. And pain always did that, took the insides out." VERONICS ROTH Are you a stupid sheep in the flock or a free eagle in the sky? Look at the mirror, what are you? Ar... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know ... MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you... D. A. PENNEBAKER It's important to find what really suits who you are, because style isn't only what you wear... CAROLINA HERRERA The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who've put me here today, and you can'... KATIE PRICE Anytime you reinvent yourself or do something you want to do, there are going to be people who don't... JOHNNY CHRIST Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because i... JAY-Z You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't. OSCAR ISAAC When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from... BEYONCE KNOWLES My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and gr... LORD MOUNTBATTEN A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't ... HARBHAJAN SINGH I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one w... USHER You can't change nothing unless you want to change it, and then if you don't like whatever s... BLAC CHYNA I think the more mediocre you are the better you do because people need to think you're their fr... KELLY BROOK You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are! JOHN LENNON It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can ... DAISY FUENTES I see too many celebrity kids who can't sing. If you don't have it, give it up, because peop... CHARLES KELLEY If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy l... CIARA You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here. SARAH ADDISON ALLEN You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like... DUSTIN DIAMOND Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long bef... 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