Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Authenticity Quotes
AmbitionAuthenticityConflictCultural DifferencesDetermination I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
AuthenticityCommunicationHumilitySelf-awarenessSimplicity I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people.
AuthenticityPassionSincerity Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
AuthenticityCourageGrowthHumilitySelf-awareness The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked... that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.
AuthenticityIdentity I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.
AmbitionAuthenticityDriveIndependent Career The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.
AuthenticityDeceptionEmotionSimplicityTruth Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
ArtistryAuthenticityCreativityExpressionMessage Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.
AuthenticityCourageFulfillmentIntegrityPassion Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
AuthenticityGenuinenessHeart Over MindLove When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
AuthenticityEmpowermentIndividualityRebellionSociety I don't want to be fake. I'm just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.
AuthenticityDirectnessHonestySelf-Expression My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.
AuthenticityEmotionJoyOpposites Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
AuthenticityEntertainmentHumilityMastery My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.
AuthenticitySelf-AcceptanceSelf-Knowledge Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
AuthenticityIndividualismIntegritySelf-Expression I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.
AuthenticityFameIdentityPressure There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.
AuthenticityCautionDiscernmentFiltering The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.
AuthenticitySatisfactionSelf-ApprovalSelf-ImageSelf-Judgment A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
AuthenticityCareerHumorLuckSelf-awareness I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn't already.
Artistic GrowthAuthenticityCreativitySelf-ExpressionSource of Inspiration Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
AuthenticityIndividualityPerception I think there is a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.
AuthenticityHeroismPatriotismPeaceViolence Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
