self-declaration Quotes

No foreign Power can consistently yield Comfort to Rebels, or enter into any kind of Treaty with these Colonies until they [the Colonies] declare themselves free and independent.

I am not Spock.

I am a socialist, and everyone knows it.

I am 150 percent the first person to say it: I am a feminist through and through.

I'm not a Christian.

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

When you say "I am," the words that follow are summoning creation with a mighty force, because you are declaring it to be fact.

I am not a man, I am dynamite!

I was a horrible student! It just sort of evolved as I started playing. I guess I became a master of it when I declared myself a wordsmith or a... word-play guy. As soon as I declared it and started that affirmation, I just became it.

Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.

My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage. He has courage to face the whole pressure of the society which is bent upon splitting him into divisions — into good and bad, into saint and sinner. He is really a brave, courageous being who stands against the whole history of man, of morality, and declares to the skies his reality, whatever it is.

I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.

I don't date boys. I don't like boys. It's true. I don't change.

Because you and I have the power to impute beauty on anything under the sun. Because you become the labels you give yourself. If you declare you're beautiful - not despite your imperfections, but because of them - then you are.

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

I'm a blackstar. I'm a blackstar.

When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

I DECLARE I am special and extraordinary. I am not average! I have been custom-made. I am one of a kind. Of all the things God created, what He is the most proud of is me. I am His masterpiece, his most prized possession. I will keep my head held high, knowing I am a child of the most high God, made in his very image. This is my declaration.

My name is Constance Marie, and I am anti-princess.

I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.

One of my earliest memories was when I was three, going to this full-length mirror in my parents' bathroom and saying into the mirror, 'You are going to be an actress.'

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.