I Am What I Am Quotes (page 17)

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• choose
• chooses
• becoming

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. Carl Jung

• doubt
• really good
• strong

It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one; and my impulses--affections--vices perhaps they should be called-- were too strong not to hamper a man without advantages; who should be as cold-blooded as a fish and as selfish as a pig to have a really good chance of being one of his country's worthies. You may ridicule me--I am quite willing that you should-- I am a fit subject, no doubt. But I think if you knew what I have gone through these last few years you would rather... Thomas Hardy

• beautiful
• power
• beauty

I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose. Margaret Cho

• wants
• want
• am

I am what I wanted and I want what I am. Meister Eckhart

• comforting
• evening
• saying

I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and don't go saying 'we all.'" Excuse me, gentleman, but I am not justifying myself with this allishness. As far as I myself am concerned, I have merely carried to an extreme in my life what you have not dared to carry even halfway, and, what's more, you've taken your cowardice for good sense, and found comfort in thus deceiving yourselves. So that I,... Fyodor Dostoevsky

• happy
• more
• know

I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do. Giorgio Moroder

• search
• wellness
• know

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. Michel de Montaigne

• caring
• rich
• being rich

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. Michel de Montaigne

• dream
• country
• wanted

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done. Whoopi Goldberg

• ifs
• am
• then

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I? Erich Fromm

• great
• saying
• people

I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do. Oded Fehr

• famous
• doing right
• rightful

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong? Barbra Streisand

• vision
• daily
• people

I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity. Boris Trajkovski

• war
• dumb
• rash

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. Barack Obama

• thinking
• parents
• children

I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent. America has watched me parent my children on TV for six years. They know what kind of parent I am. Rosie O'Donnell