Being Me Quotes - Page 2

• I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Presenter, Screens, Jimmy

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• It's impossible being me, I radiate a glow that makes others turn and grimace in horror as if staring into the sun.

  Thom Yorke

  Sun, Impossible, Horror

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• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

  Taslima Nasrin

  Men, Cry, Deny

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• I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an entry into broadcasting, I preferred it. I liked being me, rather than dressing up to be someone else. Now I'm 30 and doing a career of my own and have been in this career for eight years.

  Eleanor Mondale

  College, Eight, Years

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• Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dog, Real, Meat

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• To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me."

  Simon Boswell

  Littles, Steps, Conformity

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• Sometimes it's strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I'm surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.

  Eddy Merckx

  Men, People, Facts

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• If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end.

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Order, Taste

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

  Ivan Klíma

  Memories, Forget, Symptoms

  Ivan Klíma, Paul R. Wilson (1994). “The spirit of Prague: and other essays”, Granta (NY)

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• We honor the old prophets, we honor the Tozers and Spurgeons but we don’t want to pay the price they paid, and they paid the price by being men who walked alone who lived with God and who loved His word.

  Paul Washer

  Men, Pay The Price, Spurgeon

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• There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.

  John Constable

  Art, Boys, Long

  John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.564, Delphi Classics

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• Effort is between you, and you, and nobody elseI'm pissed off for greatness. Cause if you ain't pissed off for greatness, that just means you're okay with being mediocre, and ain't no man in here okay with just basic.

  Ray Lewis

  Mean, Greatness, Men

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• Even when I look straight into the milky blue eyes I can't find myself any more. When did I stop being me?

  Sara Gruen

  Eye, Blue, Looks

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• There's nobody quite as mean as people being mean for Jesus.

  The Rev

  Jesus, Mean, People

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• And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.

  Mike Mason

  Dad, Mean, People

  Mike Mason (2009). “The Blue Umbrella: A Novel”, p.192, David C Cook

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• But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre; they'll do everything in their power to prevent even the humblest of teachers and children from accomplishing anything extraordinary. For good work shines a light on the failures of the mediocre, and that is a light which terrifies those who conspire to keep our nation's children, like themselves, ordinary.

  Rafe Esquith

  Teacher, Children, Ignorance

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• The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.

  Willa Ford

  Feelings, Different, Different Feelings

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• My aim is to advocate that we make this mental switch in respect of our attitudes and practices towards a very large group of beings: members of species other than our own - or, as we popularly though misleadingly call them, animals. In other words, I am urging that we extend to other species the basic principle of equality that most of us recognize should be extended to all members of our own species.

  Peter Singer

  Attitude, Animal, Practice

  Helga Kuhse, Udo Schüklenk, Peter Singer (2015). “Bioethics: An Anthology”, p.530, John Wiley & Sons

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• It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put into song. That's what I choose to put in my backpack and carry with me around the world.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Overcoming, Realization

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• The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yset absolutely fresh, just from the source. He knows the truth, but he does not know that he knows.... His knowledge is not yet aware. It is innocent. It is simply there, as a matter of fact. And he is not separate from his knowledge; he is his knowledge. He has not mind, he has simple being.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Simple, Rivers

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• I'm honored to be on this list for the official beginning of the College Baseball Hall of Fame. The coaches on the list laid the groundwork for what college baseball is today. Being mentioned with those men means a lot to me.

  Skip Bertman

  Baseball, Mean, College

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• Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.

  Erich Fromm

  Giving Up, Mean, Self

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• [T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.

  William Ernest Henley

  Hot, Hey, Tables

  William Ernest Henley, “Operation”

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• Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you—your being.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Mind, Body

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• The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men.

  Saadi

  Fall, Humble, Humility

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