Be You Quotes - Page 17

• I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write phrases that people can't forget as soon as they read them.

  Clive James

  Memorable, Writing, People

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Ellen Rolfes, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2013.

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• I think books are just a great ticket to get you outside of yourself. You can not be you for a second and live in the shoes of a character, which is a special thing.

  Dan Mangan

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• I've done a lot of different things. I would say, it's really hard for me to say what the ultimate role would be. You look at a film if it comes to you.

  Morris Chestnut

  Different, Would Be, Roles

  "Morris Chestnut On When the Bough Breaks & Executive Producing". Interview with Screen Rant, screenrant.com. August 12, 2016.

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• You can't have a director say, "Just be you"; you have to have an aim. It's like when you throw darts, you have to know where the bullseye is. You can't just say, "No no no no no, drop the darts. Just stand. We're going to film you." You have to get there indirectly. You have to have me doing something, and then you can get "me."

  Paul Schneider

  Directors, Film, Darts

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. September 30, 2009.

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• Success is what you envisage it to be. You have to go into any profession knowing what you want because people will place expectations on you and their idea of success could taint yours.

  Trey Songz

  Ideas, Knowing, People

  Source: www.thisislime.net

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• If I were a guy, it would be, you know, just a different set of problems I have to carry along.

  Amanda Palmer

  Guy, Different, Would Be

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• The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.

  Erykah Badu

  People, Reason Why, Like Me

  "Erykah Badu Unleashes Her 'Wild Rabbit'". "Ebony" Interview, www.ebony.com. July 13, 2012.

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• There's no doctor in a white coat that's going to save you, or a system or a pill - it's always going to be you and the choices that you make.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Doctors, White, Choices

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• You have a clean slate every day you wake up. You have a chance every single morning to make that change and be the person you want to be. You just have to decide to do it. Decide today’s the day. Say it: this is going to be my day.

  Brendon Burchard

  Morning, Wake Up, Want

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• Antarctica is one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth. I don't think that everyone should go there. I also think that we need to respect it as a kind of a national park for the planet. It should be you know put in parentheses.

  DJ Spooky

  Beautiful, Thinking, Needs

  "Creating Melodic Landscapes in Antarctica". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 08, 2010.

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• There has to be - you know, this is like what I think Americans really have trouble with, an economy that's working for the privileged few, and there those privileged few are getting special favors from the political elite.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Political, Special

  Source: www.politico.com

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• If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as we discussed earlier, we don't have a great definition or even a good technological handle to know whether something is conscious or not just by looking at it, so there's that aspect that we're not ready to answer, I would argue. But it raises very interesting questions about the nature of identity.

  Edward Boyden

  Interesting, Brain, Identity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.

  Regina Spektor

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's amazing to impact people's lives - it's a cool thing to have the spotlight and be able to reassure people, to say, "It's OK to be you."

  Kelly Clarkson

  Impact, People, Spotlight

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.

  George Packer

  Literature, Film, Should

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Being Yourself, Finals, Lasts

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8079, Delphi Classics

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• When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men

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• Stop trying to be someone you're not. Be what you're good at, be you.

  Jeffree Star

  Trying, Stop Trying

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• The progressives have a challenge. Part of it is that you now have a lot of progressives who feel that 50 million, 60 million people voted to endorse the toxic parts of Donald Trump, that suddenly we now are in a country, you know, surrounded by people who, you know, are proud to be, you know, a part of this alt-right thing and they think it was an alt-right takeover.

  Van Jones

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• One Spirit Medicine allows you to experience communion with Spirit and understand the workings of creation. This understanding is not academic or intellectual; it’s kinesthetic and sensory-a knowingness that pervades every cell of your body...you experience a transcendent awareness that penetrates your whole being. You truly grasp that energy and consciousness can never be destroyed, only transformed into myriad shapes and forms, one of which happens to be you.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Cells, Medicine, Understanding

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• Being yourself is fun because you're one of a kind and no one else can be you.

  Christian Coma

  Being Yourself, Fun, Kind

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• The most important lesson I think I could impart is don't let anyone determine what your horizons are going to be. You get to determine those yourself. The only limitations are whatever particular talents you happen to have and how hard you're willing to work. And if you let others define who you ought to be, or what you ought to be because they put you in a category, they see your race, they see your gender and they put you in a category. You shouldn't let that happen.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Thinking, Race, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We have consciousness and rational powers but unless you're willing to spend the time to gain control of yourself, gain control of your emotions, to think deeply about what you want in a year or two, or where you want your business to be, you're going to be swept away by every new event that occurs in the course of the day or the week and the small amount of time that you plan, that you address to conscious planning, is never enough to overcome the constant tide of emotions and new things happening.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• Things like social media and the Internet, of course, it's not going away. There is no cure for it. And this shouldn't be just like there shouldn't be, you know - it would have been a tragedy if there was a cure for the printing press. I think it's just that it's an amazing tool that we as a - as an animal are just getting to grips with because it's like we've grown a new ultra powerful limb and we're learning how to use it.

  Charlie Brooker

  Powerful, Thinking, Animal

  Source: www.npr.org

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• This is one of my big things of creative pursuits. You have your idea you want to do, but then you got to figure out what does this thing want to be? You got to let it lead you a little.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Ideas, Creative, Want

  Roundtable conversation, www.slashfilm.com. November 3, 2007.

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