Being Me Quotes - Page 10

• I used to need the character but as I've gotten older I need it less and less - I prefer to play some version of myself. To approach any acting job as me just being me.

  Michael Ian Black

  Jobs, Character, Play

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• [On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.

  Mae West

  Hem, Littles, Way

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• I like being meticulous and it's quite difficult as an actor to have that much control.

  Robert Pattinson

  Actors, Meticulous, Difficult

  Source: collider.com

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• All the songs are written from the perspective of a person, being me, who had trouble with some of the big questions in life, like, are we meant to be together with the same person for the rest of our lives? Or, is it frowned upon if a man goes through many women at all times? What is the meaning of love versus sex? It's just a lot of big questions, I guess, that are really difficult to answer. People see it very differently, but people sometimes suppress their lust. And it's not only sex. It could be lusting for anything that's supposedly very bad for you but can be good for you, too.

  Sune Rose Wagner

  Song, Men, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I imagine God creating each one of us and planting a purpose deep in our hearts, I never imagine that purpose being mediocrity.

  Katie Davis

  Heart, Creating, Purpose

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• I think the most important thing is authenticity, just being as real as I can be. But also flexible and open to change and other ideas and thought processes. Back when you and I last talked, I was at a turning point in my life, and I was having a tough time. I was hiding it, but I had a really hard time just being me. So now it's important that I'm just me.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Real, Hard Times, Thinking

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• Humility feels that there is someone, somewhere who can do anything I can do better - except one thing: no one can be better at being me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Feels

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• My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.

  Pink

  Mom, Rebellion, Behavior

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• I used to draw stickmen with star glasses when I was at school. I didn't realise that would end up being me! The whole idea was that the glasses had mirrors, and if a youngster looked at me, they'd see themselves. Everybody is a star.

  Bootsy Collins

  Stars, School, Glasses

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• We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Done, Common, Republican

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• For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.

  Vera Brittain

  Children, Men, Order

  Vera Brittain (2009). “Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925”, p.408, Hachette UK

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• I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It's sort of like you're in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you'd had people be mean to you before, it really does build character.

  Lizzy Caplan

  School, Character, Mean

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

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• This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and squeezed them out upon the canvas to give it 'full force,' would be the greatest master, instead of being merely extravagant.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Men, Color

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• You can't marry boys and expect them to be men - and you can't massage them into being men.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Boys, Massage

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• I've learned from the past that it's important to recharge and get time in-between jobs, and if I can't get time in-between jobs then when I know I've got some time coming up at the end of a job, really try and take advantage of that. And do very mundane things at home and putter in the garden and spend time with family and make music and, you know, play with the dogs. Just get back to being me.

  Guy Pearce

  Dog, Jobs, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.

  William Osler

  Men, Class, Physicians

  "Women in Medicine". Book by Carol Lopate and Josiah Macy, Jr., 1968.

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• Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not.

  Baldassare Castiglione

  Mistake, Fall, Thinking

  Baldassare Castiglione (2012). “The Book of the Courtier”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• School, in general, was not great. Children are just mean to each other... but by high school, I probably stopped being annoying to people, and people stopped being mean. By the end of it, it was wonderful.

  Eugene Mirman

  Children, Mean, School

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• In the process of being metabolized, sugar robs your body of valuable nutrients ... Sugar also inhibits your liver's production of enzymes needed in the detoxification process.

  Ann Louise Gittleman

  Enzymes, Body, Sugar

  Ann Louise Gittleman (2011). “Ultimate Fat Flush Plan and Cookbook (EBOOK BUNDLE)”, p.16, McGraw-Hill Professional

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• I like playing... I don't know. I think that's what was really exciting about playing Knives, too, from the beginning was that you get to kind of do both of that. She's almost like two different people, but that's what's cool about it, because I get to show her growth and that's the thing that's really cool about Knives, you get to really see her grow up from being meek and innocent and naïve at the beginning to this powerful girl who is going for what she really believes in and what she really wants.

  Ellen Wong

  Girl, Powerful, Growing Up

  Source: collider.com

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• Being memorable equals getting picked.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Memorable

  Jeffrey Pfeffer (2010). “Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• You're being mean to someone who's helping you. What is that? Everyone knows who the assholes are, and I avoid them.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Mean, Helping, Knows

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.

  Frederick Buechner

  Squirrels, Landscape, Littles

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer

  Prayer, Wall, Mean

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• Surely the thing God enjoys most about being God is the thrill of being merciful, especially to those who don't expect it and often feel they don't deserve it.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Thrill, Enjoy, Feels

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