Being Me Quotes - Page 5

• If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.

  Kylie Minogue

  Records, Performing, Shows

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• My feeling is that, and I've been writing about my family over the years, although it might make them feel uncomfortable, people generally like to be written about. If I've written a song about the family, they enjoy being mentioned in the songs. Nobody's confronted me and said 'don't write any songs about me.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Song, Writing, Years

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• Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.

  William Shakespeare

  Monsters, Ingrates, Should

  William Shakespeare (1834). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.11

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• I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• I enjoy being me; I always have done. I've seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and it wears them down. And I don't want that in my life. It's never been an issue - at least, I've never hung out with the sort of horrible people who would make it an issue. I have insecurities, of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me.

  Adele

  Powerful, Issues, People

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• Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Country, Children, Men

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• ...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way out of a sterile maze, ignoring the fact that if the researcher who designed the maze were to be parachuted into the jungles of Borneo, he or she would be dead of starvation in a week...If I as a human being were told that the standards by which animals are being measured in these experiments are human standards, I would be insulted.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Animal, Mazes, Would Be

  J M Coetzee (2015). “Elizabeth Costello”, p.108, Random House

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• People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  People, Quality, Want

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• It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into being.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Feelings, Mediums

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• Look at you lot, you're all so vacant, is it nice not being me it must be so relaxing.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Nice, Looks, Vacant

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• I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I'm going to stab my gay brother in the back who isn't butch and who maybe acts a little bit more effeminate, what good is that?

  Kyan Douglas

  Brother, Gay, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill

  Patty Duke

  Crime, Bigger, Ill

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• I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

  Fred Melamed

  Real, Moving, Character

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• I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.

  Deborah Kerr

  Acting, Very Good, Adore

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• Dreams, they're what sets us apart from being mere a brain and a body.

  Juliette Lewis

  Dream, Brain, Body

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• I don't have an image that I'm trying to like portray. I'm just being me.

  LL Cool J

  Trying, Just Being, Just Being Me

  "HitFix Interview: ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ star LL Cool J says season opener will be a ‘tearjerker’". Interview with Liane Bonin Starr, uproxx.com. August 24, 2011.

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• I think you can be mature without being grown-up. You can also be grown-up without being mentally mature. One of them is forced, while the other one is your choice.

  Molly Ringwald

  Thinking, Choices, Mature

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is the ability to focus our attention on self-motivating thoughts, rather than being mesmerised by negatives, which rests at the very heart of a healthy approach to life.

  Nick Baylis

  Heart, Self, Focus

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• You are better off being homeless than being me.

  Britney Spears

  Homeless, Better Off

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• I know I'm not perfect & will never become. Yet, I'm proud of being Me, with all humility & imperfections.
  Cause this is the only life I have.

  Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

  Humility, Perfect, Proud

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• And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.

  Edwin Lutyens

  Stones, Given, Artistry

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• It's hard enough to be alive and human, without the additional burden of being me.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Alive, Enough, Burden

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• At this time let us be exceedingly mindful that bearing one another's burdens and sharing one another's suffering is integral to being members of Christ's body.

  Frank Griswold

  Suffering, Body, Christ

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• When what you do is play characters, every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends. I wanted to be myself, and it slowly turned into not being me at all, so I just didn't really see the point. If the music actually happens, at some point, it will be because some underground following happened, or some little elves heard it and were leaking it.

  Brie Larson

  Stars, Character, Weekend

  "Brie Larson Interview UNITED STATES OF TARA and SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. March 23, 2010.

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• That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

  Umberto Eco

  Meaningful, Attitude, Real

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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