Be You Quotes - Page 22

• If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts
  Against their father, fool me not so much
  To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
  And let not women's weapons, water drops,
  Stain my man's cheeks.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Father, Anger

  William Shakespeare (2009). “King Lear”, p.74, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.

  Iris Murdoch

  Should, Interest, Objects

  Iris Murdoch (1961). “Under the Net: A Novel”

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• It's like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you're not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.

  Jeff Bridges

  Perfection, Feelings, Trying

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• Be you. Make sure you're saying something when you're saying something. It's important to sound like you, to feel like you, to be like you. Be you.

  Erykah Badu

  Important, Sound, Like You

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• One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Can Do, One Thing, Better Than You

  Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.150, Ballantine Books

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• Every bit of you has been replaced many times over... The point is that you are like a cloud: something that persists over long periods, whilst simultaneously being in flux. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made.

  Steve Grand

  Clouds, Long, Together

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• After marriage, all things change. And one of them better be you.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Things Change, All Things

  Elizabeth Hawes (1948). “Anything But Love: A Complete Digest of the Rules of Feminine Behavior from Birth to Death ...”

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• the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults. In a culture of alienated people, the belief that everyone has at least one good period in life free of care and drudgery dies hard. And obviously you can't expect it in your old age. So it must be you've already had it.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Children, People, Childhood

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• I'm more authoritarian with the orchestras than I used to be. You need to hold your ground, I've noticed, or you'll be swept aside.

  Laurence Equilbey

  Needs, Orchestra, Used

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

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• Passion is what convinced armies that had no chance to win - it's believing that something can happen. Reality is what you make it to be. And when you're the only one who can see the way the future is going to be, you can be the tool that bends, rips, shapes and paints the future the way you want it to be. That's true passion!

  Garth Brooks

  Rip, Believe, Passion

  "Locked and Loaded". Interview with Kevin Freiberg, www.freibergs.com.

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• The social web can't exist until you are your real self online. I have to be me. You have to be you. Once we are online as ourselves, connected to each other and our other friends, then you can have the evolution of what becomes the social web.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Real, Self, Evolution

  "Zuckerberg Talks To Charlie Rose About Steve Jobs, IPOs, And Google’s 'Little Version Of Facebook'". Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Your life can be what you want it to be... You'll make it through whatever comes along. Within you are so many answers. Understand, have courage, be strong.

  Douglas Pagels

  Strong, Answers, Want

  Douglas Pagels (2004). “Words That Shine Like Stars: How to Have the Life You've Always Wanted: Advice from Celebrities and Wonderful Others”

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• Reality is the only place you can deal from. If you're still worrying about the way things should be, you haven't even approached the starting line.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Reality, Worry, Lines

  Georgette Mosbacher (1993). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within to Create the Life You Deserve”

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• It used to be you rose up through the ranks, and by the time you got a job as a boss, you had done the work of everybody beneath you.

  Suzy Welch

  Jobs, Rose, Boss

  "Jack and Suzy Welch: Why Strong Leadership Is about Truth and Trust". Knowledge@Wharton Interview, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. May 8, 2015.

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• When youre in that scene, you really wonder if this is all youre ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.

  Willie Aames

  Wonder, Scene, Filthy

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• The point I'm trying to make is that you go to church on Sunday. But the real Christ is out there in your life every day, whether it be the guy you help on the street, how you live your life, and your countenance that makes people want to be you.

  Jim Caviezel

  Real, Sunday, People

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• I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be, you spend a lot of time sitting around grumbling about how you're not doing the kind of work you really want to do. But there's a lot of complacency in that, too.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Art, Struggle, Thinking

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• Be comfortable; be you. Whats most important is to understand what suits your body type and personality. Stick to that, and you cant go wrong!

  Sonakshi Sinha

  Personality, Important, Body Types

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• Don't try so hard to fit in, and certainly don't try so hard to be different just try hard to be you.

  Zendaya

  Trying, Different, Fit

  Zendaya @Zendaya, twitter.com. January 28, 2015.

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• I feel like anything I'm doing in life, I try to stay myself and be as honest and true as I can be, you know, and be a nice person. I've always been taught to be kind to people and have an open mind about life.

  Liam Hemsworth

  Nice, People, Mind

  "Liam Hemsworth Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, the Sequels, THE EXPENDABLES 2, TIMELESS, Dito Montiel’s EMPIRE STATE and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 23, 2012.

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• At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.

  Erin Cummings

  Successful, Long, Work Ethic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But thats only because people only see that side of me when Im at work, in front of the camera. So they dont see Miranda at home; they dont see behind the scenes. They see the glamour of it all but they dont see Miranda standing barefoot in a dirty old house.

  Miranda Kerr

  Confused, Dirty, Home

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• Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but they cannot be a family. They cannot be married. I mean, virtually every culture in the history of the world has considered marriage to be between one woman and one man.

  James Dobson

  Mean, Men, Culture

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• There were two things that became apparent, pretty quickly into the process. One was that the muscles didn't take as much reconditioning as I thought they would. It was more like voice acting than I thought it would be. You're using your whole body and there are things that are different, but when you are doing a character, even in the booth, nobody is watching but my face will do different things when I do different characters.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Character, Two, Voice

  Source: collider.com

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• If you try to make the Democrats be what they are not, and never will be, you will end up being more like what the Democrats actually are.

  Bob Avakian

  Trying, Ends, Democrat

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