Being Yourself Quotes - Page 36

• The clashes of people and the clashes of cultures have assisted me in learning the openness you have to be a part of in New York. You're always meeting people who are different than you. You always have to find a way to exist in it and also find a way to be yourself. In Stockholm, I thought I was artsy, then I came to New York and was like, "there's a bunch of artsy people everywhere!" It really forced me to start looking myself and ask. "what does it mean to be me?"

  Kissey

  Mean, People, Different

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Healthy aggression is good, but I think social media can perpetuate that in the worst way. You have to be careful about comparing yourself to others. You can never be somebody else. You will only be yourself, and that's what's great.

  Rose Byrne

  Thinking, Healthy, Social Media

  Source: people.com

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• The whole point was just to be yourself, no matter what that was. You didn't have to fit into a certain punk-rock cliché. Create whatever your compelled to create. People were putting out their own records, and it just seemed natural to put out my own magazine. When I was really young, I started making magazines and little books, just folded-over pieces of typing paper, so when I discovered punk rock, it really blew my mind. I played in bands and stuff, but making my own zines seemed like an inherent part of that scene.

  John Porcellino

  Book, People, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What I do is I don't act a part, I give a piece of myself. Old friends that have known me for a long time, when they saw me in my first movie said: "Roland you are not acting; you are just being yourself." But I don't think you can deliver a role without putting something of yourself into it, and I just realised that everyday we do a little bit of acting.

  Roland Møller

  Thinking, Long, Giving

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• A lot of people in the jazz community are looking at how much notoriety we're getting. And we're an inspiration to a lot of young people, because now there's something new they can aim for that's in their grasp. Because a lot of times when you attend a jazz college it's all about the history, none of the teachers there are forward-thinking, for the most part, so they don't teach you how to be yourself and embrace the music around you.

  Robert Glasper

  Teacher, Inspiration, College

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think you're always policing yourself by trying to do what you think would be "cool" and accepted by other people, until you start to figure out who you really want to be. Growing up is an ongoing push-and-pull of you being yourself and you performing to what society expects you to be.

  John Legend

  Growing Up, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Authenticity is critical to leadership. That means trying to be yourself - this involves some self-disclosure, admitting what you don't know and being willing to ask questions.

  Robert S. Kaplan

  Mean, Trying, Authenticity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• My thing is "You don't need anyone else to empower you; you can empower yourself." Whether it's a pep talk or putting on a good shade of lipstick, whatever you need to do, do it, but be yourself. You absolutely don't need someone else to tell you that you're good enough.

  Ayesha Curry

  Empowering, Good Enough, Pep

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Nowadays, you can be yourself. You don't have to put on façade. You can be who you are and still be just as successful as the ones who put on the fake façade. You know, it's like reality is just as important as fiction.

  Ice Cube

  Successful, Reality, Fake

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.

  Jonathan Dee

  Book, Trying, Lifetime

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When brides ask me, "What's the best advice you can give me on my wedding day?" I always have the same answer: "Be yourself." Someone's marrying you, they love you for who you are, and they don't want you to be someone else.

  Vera Wang

  Love You, Giving, Advice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's important to view fashion as personal and creative - even for brides. When brides ask me, "What's the best advice you can give me on my wedding day?" I always have the same answer: "Be yourself." Someone's marrying you, they love you for who you are, and they don't want you to be someone else, they want you to be who you are. If you never wear blue eye shadow, why would you put it on on your wedding day? If you wear your hair simply, why would you suddenly dye it a different color and get a big 'do? To me it's about respect and self-understanding and honesty.

  Vera Wang

  Fashion, Honesty, Love You

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For Beirut it was the civil war, and the dividing of the city - which is something that is shared among Beirut, Berlin and Baghdad. And Cairo is a city that has a scar that was born after many decades of dictatorship - oppression shaped the people's lives, and forced people to grow up accompanied by fear. I belong to a generation that, whether we like it or not, was shaped by this fear of death or loosing the people you love, the threat of war, not allowed to be yourself, forced to be silent - as you watch ignorance occupying everything around you. And this is a deep scar.

  Tamer El Said

  Growing Up, War, Ignorance

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• "Culture" is a new phenomenon, I believe. Culture is the new religion. People treat you based upon your culture. You are pushed to describe yourself by your culture: Kurdish or Turkish? Left wing or right wing? Progressive or conservative? Westerner or Easterner? European or Asian? So we have a label ready for you.

  Burhan Sonmez

  Believe, People, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Nowadays it's a big issue in Europe because you are forced to describe yourself by your culture, and you begin to forget about yourself, your identity. You're supposed to act in certain ways. You're limited. When you try to go outside the lines to go into some other garden, then you're blamed and stoned because it's like blasphemy. When we talk about culture, we have to see those two sides to it. When we ignore it, it's dangerous. When we talk about it too much, it's also dangerous. We have to have a moderate balance.

  Burhan Sonmez

  Garden, Balance, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

  Theodor Adorno

  Birthday, Inspire, Individuality

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• It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

  Aesop

  Bird, Fables, Aviation

  "The Jay and the Peacock". A fable by Aesop,

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• It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

  Summer Altice

  Play, Trying, Acting

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• We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

  Jane Austen

  Life, Happiness, Intuition

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.368

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• I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

  Pearl Bailey

  Morning, Attitude, Feet

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• You never find yourself until you face the truth.

  Pearl Bailey

  Life, Encouraging, Witty

  Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket

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• I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

  Kate Bosworth

  Crazy, Thoughtful, Laughing

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• Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.

  Brooke Burke

  Dating, Important, Difficult

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• The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'

  Kelly Clarkson

  Stars, Business, Thinking

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• I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.

  Anderson Cooper

  Real, Thinking, Long

  " Anderson Cooper is far more than the ordinary television newsman" by Brittany Frederick, www.axs.com. June 28, 2014.

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