Being Me Quotes - Page 9

• If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Gay

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• I don't mind what they say as long as they're not being mean.

  George Clooney

  Mean, Long, Mind

  "Talking dirty", www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2002.

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• If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Funny, Hater, People

  FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Jul 28, 2012

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• Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Mean, Spices, Levels

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• I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

  Jessie J

  Thinking, Hair, Looks

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

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• Sam looked at me, yellow eyes catching and holding me. "I miss being me. I miss you. All the time.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Yellow, Missing

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.179, Scholastic UK

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• I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.

  Aimee Mullins

  Softball, Girl, Player

  "What Are the New Secrets to Getting Ahead? Inspiring Ladies Spill to Glamour's 2012 Top 10 College Women!" by Lauren Iannotti, www.glamour.com. April 4, 2012.

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• God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Fake People, Being Yourself

  William Shakespeare, Nick De Somogyi (2001). “Hamlet: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke : the First Folio of 1623 and a Parallel Modern Edition”, p.106, Nick Hern Books

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• Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.

  Layne Staley

  Different

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• I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night - and I'd dream about it being me.

  Steven Wright

  Dream, Night, Watches

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• There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn't have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails until I was a bleeding wreck. I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being me.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Girl, Half, Whispering

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.9, Penguin

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• Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Roles, World

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 1999.

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• Ruth hadn't talked to my sister since before my death, and then it was only to excuse herself in the hallway at school. But she'd seen Lindsey walking home with Samuel and seen her smile with him. She watched as my sister said yes to pancakes and no to everything else. She had tried to imagine herself being my sister as she had spent time imagining being me.

  Alice Sebold

  Home, School, Ruth

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• I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

  Ben Affleck

  Talent, Sometimes, Easy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue of being me I was disqualified.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Real, Guy, Imagine

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2013). “Prep and American Wife: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.271, Random House

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• What you see on the campaign trail is me. It's easy being me.

  Al Franken

  Campaigns, Easy, Trails

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• Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  People, Pretending

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• I grew up in a very polite family, and I suppose my parents were both very polite, and from the time I was a young boy, I suspected that there were passions seething underneath and not being mentioned, and that was something that came to preoccupy me. Somehow I had some drive to write down what people might really be thinking.

  Wallace Shawn

  Passion, Writing, Boys

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• In the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In my view, this is a fault of the American school system, which is a government monopoly.

  Milton Friedman

  School, Government, Views

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm not a Mexican writer, but I think everything that happens in Mexico affects the Mexican writers I know, in their sense of being human and of being Mexican, even if they don't in any explicit way address these issues in their writing.

  Francisco Goldman

  Writing, Thinking, Mexican

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really believe you have to make television with the belief that you're going to continue on. If you hedge bets and you catch yourself being measured, I usually find that's a bad sign. Maybe you know something that you don't want to know.

  David Eick

  Believe, Belief

  Source: collider.com

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• That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'

  Jim Carrey

  Good Morning, Giving, Sides

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The trouble with stand-up is it sort of is you and yet it isn't you and it's incredibly hard not to take everything said about you personally. I would never Google my own name; I don't want to hear people being mean about me.

  Josie Long

  Mean, People, Google

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I'm so glad that talented writers and everybody who produces shows are being meeting with such success - it gives me more hope for the future of satire. They're probably the most powerful form of satire out there today.

  Mark Fiore

  Powerful, Giving, Today

  Source: voices.washingtonpost.com

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• I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, People, Strange

  "Ellen DeGeneres Shows Us How To Live Our Own Truth" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 28, 2016.

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