Being Myself Quotes - Page 5

• You're just trying to be yourself, and for me, playing soccer is being myself. One day, you're one person on a team. The next thing people are asking your opinion about things you're not an expert on. Because they recognize you, they think you must know something about something - which isn't necessarily the case.

  Brandi Chastain

  Soccer, Being Yourself, Team

  "Brandi Chastain talks about LeBron dustup". Interview with Dan Fleschner, www.today.com. March 27, 2008.

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• Guys I’m kind of nutty, but you have to understand that that’s all just me being myself.

  Darren Criss

  Guy, Kind, Nutty

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• I think especially since going solo it's pretty clear that I'm completely being myself.

  William Beckett

  Thinking, Solo, Clear

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• Ask yourself, 'what's more important - being real and being myself, or becoming successful? And ask the question knowing that you never actually have to choose between being real and being successful. You simply have to choose between being realand striving to be successful. Get the difference?

  Thomas Leonard

  Success, Real, Differences

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• I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.

  Cary Grant

  Difficult, Critics, Accused

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think my secret would have to be just being true to who I am and just being myself.

  Tia Mowry

  Thinking, Who I Am, Secret

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• My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to be in the midst of it, and rejoice and wonder at it, and help it if I could, - happier if it needed no help of mine, - this was the essential love of Nature in me, this the root of all that I have usefully become, and the light of all that I have rightly learned.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Roots, Light

  John Ruskin, David Carrier, Walter Pater, Adrian Stokes (1997). “England and Its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste”, p.44, Psychology Press

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• What I've got to live up to, is being myself. If I do that, the rest will take care of itself.

  Ray Charles

  Care, Take Care, Ifs

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• Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the equal liberty of his fellow citizens, I have lamented that in France the endeavors to obtain this should have been attended with the effusion of so much blood.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Blood, Should Have

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.173, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility.

  Joseph Conrad

  Sadness, Feelings, Mind

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “A Set of Six”, p.103, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It is true to say that for me sanctity consists in being myself and for you sanctity consists of being yourself and that, in the last analysis, your sanctity will never be mine and mine will never be yours, except in the communism of charity and grace. For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

  Thomas Merton

  Being Yourself, Mean, Who I Am

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• I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself.

  Jenny Holzer

  Thinking, People, Support

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• I'm terrified of just being myself because I think it's boring. I know who I really am and I think it's boring.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Just Being, Boring

  "It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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• I never thought I'd be a role model this early. It caught me off-guard, but it says a lot about how I was brought up, what my values have been, and how my parents raised me. It's very flattering that being myself is enough to be a role model.

  Danica Patrick

  Role Models, Parent, Roles

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• My main focus off the court is to be humble. My mom always told me to be a presentable young man. I'm not going to pretend to be something that I'm not and act a certain way for people. I plan on being myself. I like having a good time, but I still carry myself in an orderly fashion.

  Eli Manning

  Mom, Fashion, Humble

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• When I perform, I'm just very much just being myself.

  India.Arie

  Just Being

  Source: www.tv.com

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• When you are a marginalized person or a woman of color and/or someone who's a part of the LGBTQ community, your acts become politicized, just by being yourself. Because we're not completely accepting of all different kinds of human beings. By being myself, I'm doing something political.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Being Yourself, Color, Community

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm glad things are getting better, but I'm going to push and be pissed off until they're perfect. That will probably never happen, but I feel some weird duty nonetheless. Even though I can get married in Seattle, I could go to another country and get the death penalty just for being myself-I'm not making music just for fiancés in Seattle.

  Perfume Genius

  Country, Perfect, Get Better

  "Perfume Genius" by Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2014.

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• If I'm a character, it's a biographical movie. My character is as close to me as possible. As close to being myself as possible. So my character, J. Cole, is very close to Jermaine Cole.

  J. Cole

  Character, Ifs

  "J. Cole Talks Roc Nation, Meeting Jay-Z & 'The Warm Up' Mixtape". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. May 2, 2009.

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• When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Wake Up, Astonishment

  Jorge Luis Borges (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.184, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don`t. I can`t get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Song, Men, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds me. Work is not always a hard thing that looms over your years. Sometimes, work is the gift of the world to the wanting.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Hero, Knights, Years

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.356, Macmillan

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• I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

  Michelle Dockery

  Singing, Acting, Different

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The celebrity mill is so active these days that actors can make careers out of being themselves, and I don't know that I want to. I think I'm just figuring out how to make a career out of not being myself. It's hard.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, Careers, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What the artist should be asking is, "Am I being honest? Am I being myself? Am I searching for the truth? Am I reporting my experience of life and the world as I see and experience it?

  Scott Kahn

  Artist, Asking, World

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