Be You Quotes - Page 15

• All women are goddesses, and it's just a matter of letting that goddess-power shine - and if you don't try to be the biggest and baddest damn goddess you can be, you are selling yourself short.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Shining, Trying, Matter

  Kimora Lee Simmons (2009). “Fabulosity: What It Is & How to Get It”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• You should aspire to a level of personal excellence - to be the best you can be. You should aspire to have the richest life you can get in terms of fulfillment, happiness and peace.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Excellence, Levels, Being The Best

  Kimora Lee Simmons (2009). “Fabulosity: What It Is & How to Get It”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• If you feel a bump on page one hundred, it may be you went off on page fifty.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Bumps, Fifty, May

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• Some if it may seem hokey to some people, but if you traveled where I've traveled, done what I've done and seen the results that I've been getting, then you understand where I'm coming from. Playing in a football game is like being in 30-40 car accidents. You can find yourself in awkward positions. That stuff takes its toll. But if you take advantage of health care, balance your body back out, put it back where its supposed to be, you function better, and you recover faster.

  Emmitt Smith

  Football, Games, Car

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• Parking at a garage is like going to a prostitute. Why pay for it when you can apply yourself, and then may be you can get it for free.

  Jason Alexander

  May, Pay, Garage

  "Fictional character: George Costanza". "Seinfeld", www.imdb.com. 1989 - 1998.

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• How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it. Almost nobody would say it's zero. But that's where at least we need the private sector to play a big role.

  Bill Gates

  Zero, Government, Play

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• God's grace will never be available to you to become another person. He created to be you - the best "you" you can be! Forget about trying to be someone else.

  Joyce Meyer

  Grace, Trying, Forget

  Joyce Meyer (1994). “Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing”

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• So the audience, at times, lets us know actually what is so special about the show that we can't even necessarily design or predict. Which is great. That's what you want art to be. You want it to be alive and to actually have a life in the way it's viewed.

  Steve Zissis

  Art, Design, Special

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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• It's okay to be you. You don't have to try to be anybody else. Whatever you are, however you are, it's fine. Nobody's perfect.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Perfect, Trying, Fine

  "Priyanka Chopra Talks Disney’s PLANES, Playing the Character Ishani, Hoping to Inspire Children with Her Confidence, Her Love of Flying & Her Competitive Spirit". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 13, 2013.

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• Sometimes you need an anchor, whatever it might be. You need a space to connect. So often you get into a way of doing things.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Anchors, Space, Needs

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He was uninterested in being a first-tier artist! He wanted to be, you know, a god. Someone who completely changed the...he wanted to be Zeus with the lightning bolt and nothing less would have satisfied him.

  Bob Colacello

  Artist, Names, Lightning

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I rationalize out, well, how much help could you really be, you know? And maybe if people saw this, they'd realize the brutality of war and figure out there's got to be some better way than killing human beings who are just trying to farm a field.

  Haskell Wexler

  War, People, Trying

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking.

  David Longstreth

  Song, Jobs, Writing

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• I've always been a fan at home. That's the one joke I have with Sam [Champion]. "I've always loved you! I remember wanting to be you in grade school!"

  Chris Cuomo

  Home, School, Champion

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• Comfort zones are deadly zones because you lose your true potential of what you can be, you start going with the status quo.

  Greg Plitt

  Comfort, Status Quo, True Potential

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• I think when you're photographing - when anybody's photographing another person in a private situation, it's a kind of a seduction but it's not always a sexual seduction... I feel like when Jack [Welpott] was doing it, it was a sexual seduction and when I was doing it, it was more of a psychological seduction in order to get them to cooperate with me... Not because I wanted them to spread their legs or... be, you know, Wanna sleep with me? , or whatever.

  Judy Dater

  Sleep, Thinking, Order

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• I finally stopped complaining about 'Why isn't everybody else making me what I want to be?' You can't rely solely on your agent or your managers to educate people as to who you are.

  Laura Benanti

  People, Complaining, Agents

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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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• Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.

  Karl Rove

  Party, Giving, Chance

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You got your own style, now let it come through. And remember no matter what, you got to be you.

  SebastiAn

  Mermaid, Style, Matter

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• Listen to the inner voice that allows you to be you!

  Elvis Stojko

  Voice, Inner Voice

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• So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.

  Junot Diaz

  Girl, Heart, Boys

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• To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

  Seneca the Younger

  Tongue, Firsts, Silent

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• It's like, say you're a dancer and you've been studying modern dance your whole life so you're used to a certain aesthetic of music or motivation or influence, if I send you something that you're totally not used to or don't understand, rarely does that work. On the average, you're not gonna feel that and it won't be you. You have to be in there.

  Jlin

  Motivation, Average, Dancer

  Source: thequietus.com

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• However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Military, People, May

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