Being Myself Quotes - Page 4

• I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.

  Anais Nin

  Believe, Fire

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• I always had difficulty as a model just being myself. I can be very shy, and I used to have a lot of anxiety about working on set.

  Stephanie Seymour

  Anxiety, Shy, Just Being

  Interview magazine, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, this happens as you get older. I loved my 40s - I thought they were fantastic. And I'm loving my 50s. I'm going to love everything because you're either older or dead!

  Gloria Estefan

  Skins, Just Being, Fantastic

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• I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Guru, Discipleship

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Fans, Want, Bigs

  Interview with Justina Hart, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 1999.

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• The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

  Riz Ahmed

  People, Doubt, Acting

  "Q&A: Riz Ahmed". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2010.

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• I was the kid in the class who was looking for the angles to question things or make wise-ass remarks, not knowing enough to be afraid of being myself or showing intelligence. But I wasn't the only kid like that in my classes because of where I grew up. I'm really thankful I grew up in a town where there were a lot of other mutant kids. I'm from Boulder, Colorado, which went through a lot of dramatic changes when I was growing up.

  Jello Biafra

  Wise, Growing Up, Kids

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.

  Yeardley Smith

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• 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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• My career is inexplicable to me. So far I've just been not getting fired despite being myself.

  Nick Offerman

  Careers, Inexplicable, Getting Fired

  Source: www.esquire.com

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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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• Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.

  Bent Larsen

  Boss, Literature, Chess

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• I discovered at 18 that singing and songwriting was my strength. I decided that it was closest to my heart and if I pursued it then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

  Jason Mraz

  Music, Dream, Heart

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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 get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins.

  Billy Corgan

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  Dirt Magazine, 1992.

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• I always believed in being myself.

  Thelonious Monk

  Always Believe

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• I am human. I am messy. I'm not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I'm right. I am just trying - trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.

  Roxane Gay

  Inspiring, Believe, Writing

  "Bad Feminist". Book by Roxane Gay, August 5, 2014.

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• Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool to learn how to master the same tricks... Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can.

  Silvanus P. Thompson

  Education, Stupid, Math

  Silvanus P. Thompson (1914). “Calculus Made Easy: Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus”

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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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• 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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• 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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• You can't please everybody, and basically I just decided to please myself first on this record. This record is more like my diary and I am expressing myself through my music. And that's what it should be about. That's why I didn't change my name or anything. It's not about the name; it's about the music. The old saying goes that video killed the radio star and it's very true. And now I'm just letting everything revolve around the music. There is no image; I am just being myself.

  Vanilla Ice

  Change, Stars, Names

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• Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

  Chris Campanioni

  Lonely, Writing, Seems

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• I felt like I got more comfortable on "Idol" when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Idols, Trying, Comfortable

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Chicago Star Kara DioGuardi". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 16, 2011.

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