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It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.
— Justin Trudeau
I realized that I had been called to proclaim the Gospel from the place where I am and proclaim where I am from the Gospel.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Why is the place where I want to be so often so far from where I am?
— Ashleigh Brilliant
When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'
— Marina Abramovic
Ask me not where I live or what I like to eat ... Ask me what I am living for and what I think is keeping me from living fully that.
— Thomas Merton
I'm very happy where I am: I'm a senator from Ohio.
— Rob Portman
I am going to read... but from where to start - is the biggest question in the world.
— Deyth Banger
I know where I come from, where I am now and where the wish to go.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My concern is not the fact that other people don't understand where I am coming from, even though Christians are supposed to be doing what I am doing
— Sunday Adelaja
The court doesn't care what my name is or where I'm from or where I'll be tomorrow. It lets me exist as I am.
— Nora Sakavic
I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.
— Alonzo Mourning
I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.
— D.H. Lawrence
No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
— Kate Beckinsale
I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with. Wherever I go, La Castellane is where I want to go back to.
— Zinedine Zidane
I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.
— Enrique Iglesias
The live show is different from the album. It's different every night depending on where I am and how many months have gone by since I last performed.
— Sandra Bernhard
I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.
— Paloma Faith
I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band.
— Ryan Tedder
From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.
— Dejan Stojanovic
My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself.
— Rirkrit Tiravanija
Why does it have to be hard in life? I was waiting all through life for love. When I finally found it, it is far far away from where I am.
— Jessie Joe Parker
You still haven't said where you come from. Where is your home?"I said, "I am a sheath, so home is wherenever my shade, my blade is. — Sarah Micklem
Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed.
— Eric Thomas
I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from.
— Debbie Harry
I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more.
— Terry Pratchett
The greatest misery does not stop Me from uniting Myself to a soul, but where there is pride, I am not there.
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.
— Josephine Jacobsen
I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.
— Valerie June
It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I am.
— Howard Schultz
She wondered where this courage had come from, to speak to him so frankly. From Winterfell, she thought. I am stronger within the walls of Winterfell.
— George R R Martin
No club moves me from Chelsea until Chelsea wants me to move because I want to be where I am loved.
— Jose Mourinho
It's hard to think of myself as an American, and yet I am not from India, a place where I was not born and where I have never lived.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
From where I'm sitting,I AM the centre of the Universe! — Sebastyne Young
Where I want to go is not about running from where I am.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
When I look at where I've been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.
— Gloria Gaither
I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I've drawn myself apart from them all; I am my own skipper and later on I shall see where I come to land
— Anne Frank
I am from the jungle where the lion eats the cobra
— Lil' Wayne
I am done looking for love where it doesn't exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.
— Maggie Young
Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
— Chief Joseph
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
— Charles Dickens
Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn't achieve what I want.
— Marina Abramovic
My best days are ahead of me and I choose not to let where I've been to stop me from where I am going.
— Jamie Larbi
I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?
— Raymond Carver
I am from the bush. The bush did not define me. I did not stay in the bush, but I never forgot where I came from.
— Anthony Carmona
It was important for me to understand who I am and where I came from. To get a hold on why I do certain things.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
— Mick Jagger
Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
— Evelyn Waugh
Where we are as a species is very far away from where I am as an individual, and I am many miles away from where I want to be.
— Steve Merrick
I'm from Planet Nomi where I wear black lipstick so you can see my lips and what I am doing with them.
— Klaus Nomi
Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
— Waris Dirie
I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.
— Shania Twain
I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.
— Wallace Stegner