Personal Identity Quotes

My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.

I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.

I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.

I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will. The Jews believe in free will. They believe that man shapes his own life. I reject that doctrine philosophically. In that respect I am not a Jew.

My face is my passport.

I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.

My parents wanted to name me Karim Hill. My aunt always liked the name Dule, from this actor Keir Dullea, who was in '2001: Space Odyssey.' That's how I got the name Karim Dule Hill. Growing up, I never liked the name Karim because people would ask me, 'Could you dunk like Kareem Abdul Jabbar?'

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I'm 25, but I look like I'm 16 so I don't really don't consider age personally.

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem.

I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.

Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

I've always kind of known what I like and what I don't. And never felt any pressure to wear certain things or watch certain things... It's hard to explain, but I've just always felt it.

Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of their own imagination.

A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.

Music is my religion.

My surname Volkanovski comes from my father's side, so I have many Macedonian supporters and I really appreciate it.

No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.