When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'
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"These are only... RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ... ANGELINA JOLIE I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be... ABBY WAMBACH I'm so Republican, my first name starts with 'R.' I'm so right-wing - well, Randy We... RANDY WEBER Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic. KARAN JOHAR Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA I've told many people that I'm not looking to go out there and find the most beautiful girl ... SCOTTY MCCREERY There's so much crap attached to acting: the fame aspect, the ego aspect, the 'Am I good, am... REBECCA HALL People can judge me for what I've done. And I think when somebody's out in the public eye, t... HILLARY CLINTON I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had ... ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC I am a guy who is first of all a businessman. I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a daredevil. I... EVEL KNIEVEL All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors... RYAN GOSLING The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It w... WILLIAM JOYCE I'm not somebody who likes to show off my cleavage, and I don't dress up for the papers. LOUISE NURDING I'm happy with who I am inside. I'd hate to have accolades and all that and not really be ha... KEKE PALMER I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I k... JULIAN SCHNABEL I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished... DAPHNE GUINNESS If you don't read it, you don't know. I mean, that's why I have a PR team. They read it ... ANNE WOJCICKI I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I t... JAZMINE SULLIVAN Everybody who loves me calls me Sissy, so I guess that's just who I am. When I'm 80, they... SISSY SPACEK I'm not hiding who I am anymore - not pretending I'm something I'm not. BLAKE MCIVER EWING I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don... BUCK OWENS You don't wanna walk around and say, 'I'm somebody's niece, I'm somebody's c... MARIA SHRIVER A character wandering around asking, 'Who am I?' isn't, in and of itself, a story I'... GREG RUCKA If the Loki in 'Thor' was about a spiritual confusion - 'Who am I? How do I belong in th... TOM HIDDLESTON Sometimes people think I'm wearing a wig when I'm not wearing a wig, and then sometimes they... NICOLAS CAGE I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal... NEKO CASE I'm nobody's deputy. I am who I am. I'm my own person. MIKE LEE A lot of comedians get a bad rep once they have kids and that's all they talk about, and people ... TIG NOTARO I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record. EMINEM I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. Thes... TEMPLE GRANDIN This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'Go... GARY SHEFFIELD I'm confident in who I am, and I'm not doing anything wrong. I'm just being myself: bein... JUSTINE SKYE People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's ... ABIGAIL BRESLIN I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to a... JENNIFER EGAN I'm not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I'm not very good at teachi... RICK SMOLAN I'm happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I thi... KATE MOSS I'm like, 'Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody ... BECKY G No, I am who I am. I'm not going to change for anybody. CALISTA FLOCKHART At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with ... CHRISTINE QUINN My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I&... K'NAAN I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defi... CATHERINE TATE When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what... SYDNEY J. HARRIS When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?... SYDNEY J. HARRIS Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math! NATHAN LANE I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I ... SALLY PHILLIPS Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to ... CARLA GUGINO I think my biggest appeal for fans is probably the fact that I'm honest. I'm up front about ... JOHN BARROWMAN I'm black because I was born this way. I'm proud of it. Thank God I am who I am. DARIUS RUCKER I love math and was a math teacher for many years, so it was fun for me to write several math books,... DAVID A. ADLER I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they ... KATE UPTON Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I neve... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they'... BARRY EISLER I'm not really someone who's always out on the scene going places. I'm a homebody. That&... SETH CURRY I feel like when people judge me they're not judging me, because they don't know who I am. GISELE BUNDCHEN When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I a... BOBBY FLAY I don't think people who are bad people think they're bad people. ADAM SCOTT I'm not going to do opinion. That's not who I am. CAMPBELL BROWN I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity. When... DEEPAK CHOPRA I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I ... ODETTE ANNABLE I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'T... ZARA LARSSON When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They... HARI KONDABOLU I think there was a petition online to get me involved in 'Doctor Who.' I'm not a 'D... GINA BELLMAN I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, no... JUDITH R. FAULKNER I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, no... JUDITH FAULKNER I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm on... MARY J. BLIGE I'm pretty professional. I'm very aware when I'm not playing well and what I need to imp... DANIEL NESTOR I'm collateral damage. I'm road kill. And in 72 hours, nobody is going to remember who I am ... ERIC MASSA I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on ... CARLI LLOYD Half the people think I write Obama's speeches; the other half think I'm on 'Entourage.&... JON FAVREAU It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A... ADAM BALDWIN I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just ... BEBE NEUWIRTH For a long time, sure, I was letting the pressure of being Rodney King get to me. It ain't easy.... RODNEY KING In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't... MATT KEMP I'm not a guy that really likes to pile onto somebody. Doesn't really matter who it is. DANIEL CORMIER This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect. MICHAEL STRAHAN There is an outdated belief that girls are not as good at science and math subjects as boys. But acc... PADMASREE WARRIOR I think so many young girls get caught up in the challenge of being with somebody who's dangerou... NIKKI REED
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