Being Myself Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself

  Anne Rice

  Sin, Wonderful, Wonderful Times

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2249, Ballantine Books

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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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• I really like playing other people. There is no other feeling like it, to have a different voice come out of you and to have a different life for a couple of hours. I like being myself. But maybe it's like you ride a bike every day and someone says, 'For two hours tonight do you want to ride this Harley?' You'd be like, 'OK yeah!

  Cristin Milioti

  Couple, Two, Voice

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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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• Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Tvs, World, Just Being

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

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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 read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly invisible suit that sometimes oppresses me, is the external world’s tremendous and remarkable clarity, the sun that sees everyone, the moon that splotches the still earth with shadows, the wide expanses that end in the sea, the blackly solid trees whose tops greenly wave, the steady peace of ponds on farms, the terraced slopes with their paths overgrown by grape-vines.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Moon, Objectivity, Sea

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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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• 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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• I'm me. I'm just out there being myself. I like having fun. But at the same time, I bring everybody together. So I'm really -- or I try to be -- like the glue of the team.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Fun, Team, Together

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• I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.

  Alice James

  Writing, Thinking, Reflection

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• I'm just saying I'm being myself, and people understand that.

  Dennis Rodman

  People, Just Saying

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• My mother taught me to focus on being myself and not to worry what other people think about you. I know that as long as I'm a good person I'll stay on the right path. From my dad I learned that when someone tells you “No” it's only the beginning of a conversation. They both have always let me know that I can do anything I want to do as long as I don't give up. They are the most important role models in my life because they are exactly who I want to be when I grow up. They are supportive and understanding and I try every day to remember what they've taught me.

  Lauren Conrad

  Mother, Giving Up, Growing Up

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• When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Self, Degrees, Individualism

  GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1967). “THE SERMONS AND DEVOTIONAL WRITINGS OF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS”

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• I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my teenage years. Basically I'm just being myself.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Teenage, School, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.

  Mac DeMarco

  Crazy, Guy, Intellectual

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• 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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• 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 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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