„I am what I am Are you what you are or What?“
— Alanis Morissette Canadian-American singer-songwriter 1974
„What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what?“
"What I Am"
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)
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„I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you“
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning English poet, author 1806 - 1861
„I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?“
— Anne Bancroft American actress 1931 - 2005
Interview on her role in the Broadway play "Two for the Seesaw". The New York Times (1958).
„I am no What! I am only I …
In relation to you!“
— Frederick Franck Dutch painter 1909 - 2006
Zdroj: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 40
Kontext: "What are you?"
— I am no What! I am only I …
In relation to you!
„I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man.“
— George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950
Act II
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)
„Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?“
— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941
„The most important question you can ever ask yourself. It’s not what am I getting. It is what am I becoming.“
— John C. Maxwell American author, speaker and pastor 1947
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
„It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.“
— Christopher Pike American author Kevin Christopher McFadden 1954
Zdroj: The Red Dice
„B: What do you think what a person I am?“
— George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950
"The role of the character initiating the proposal in this anecdote has been assigned to George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill, Groucho Marx, Mark Twain, W. C. Fields, Bertrand Russell, H.G. Wells, Woodrow Wilson and others. However, the earliest example of this basic story found by QI did not spotlight any of the persons just listed [...]
[...] QI hypothesizes that this anecdote began as a fictional tale that was intended to be humorous with an edge of antagonism. The story was retold for decades. Famous men were substituted into the role of the individual making the proposition. Occasionally, the individual who received the proposition was also described as famous, but typically she remained unidentified.
[...] In January 1937 the syndicated newspaper columnist O. O. McIntyre printed a version of the anecdote that he says was sent to him as a newspaper clipping. This tale featured a powerful Canadian-British media magnate and politician named Max Aitken who was also referred to as Lord Beaverbrook [MJLB]":
Someone sends me a clipping from Columnist Lyons with this honey:
“They are telling this of Lord Beaverbrook and a visiting Yankee actress. In a game of hypothetical questions, Beaverbrook asked the lady: ‘Would you live with a stranger if he paid you one million pounds?’ She said she would. ‘And if be paid you five pounds?’ The irate lady fumed: ‘Five pounds. What do you think I am?’ Beaverbrook replied: ‘We’ve already established that. Now we are trying to determine the degree.”
Quote investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/03/07/haggling/ cited 2013-07-10
Misattributed
„If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.“
— James Baldwin (1924-1987) writer from the United States 1924 - 1987
„What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.“
— Margaret Atwood, kniha The Year of the Flood
Zdroj: The Year of the Flood
„I am the women's pet, the men's regret. What you see is what you get. And what you don't see is better yet.“
— Billy Graham (wrestler) American professional wrestler, american football player, bodybuilder 1943
Billy Graham, Tangled Ropes: Superstar Billy Graham (2006)
„If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.“
— Peter Sellers British film actor, comedian and singer 1925 - 1980
As quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1988) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 622
„I am less than what you tell about me but more than what you think about me“
— Ali, kniha Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
Kontext: A man sarcastically started praising Imam Ali, though he had no faith in him and Imam Ali hearing these praises from him said "I am less than what you tell about me but more than what you think about me."
„I am not what I ought to be — ah, how imperfect and deficient! I am not what I wish to be — I abhor what is evil, and I would cleave to what is good! I am not what I hope to be — soon, soon shall I put off mortality, and with mortality all sin and imperfection. Yet, though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say, I am not what I once was; a slave to sin and Satan; and I can heartily join with the apostle, and acknowledge, "By the grace of God I am what I am."“
— John Newton Anglican clergyman and hymn-writer 1725 - 1807
As quoted in The Christian Pioneer (1856) edited by Joseph Foulkes Winks, p. 84. Also in The Christian Spectator, vol. 3 (1821), p. 186 http://books.google.com/books?id=mv4oAAAAYAAJ&dq=ah%2C%20how%20imperfect%20and%20deficient!%20I%20am%20not%20what%20I%20wish%20to%20be&pg=PA186#v=onepage&q=ah,%20how%20imperfect%20and%20deficient!%20I%20am%20not%20what%20I%20wish%20to%20be&f=false
Often paraphrased as I am not the man I ought to be, I am not the man I wish to be, and I am not the man I hope to be, but by the grace of God, I am not the man I used to be."'