Chameleon Quotes - Page 2

• We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.

  John Locke

  Children, Wonder, Stills

  "Some Thoughts Concerning Education". Book by John Locke, 1693.

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• I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.

  Lana Del Rey

  Girl, Wise, Mother

  "The Year in News 2012". pitchfork.com. December 28, 2012.

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• I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.

  John Lennon

  Music, Brother, Dylan

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• I'm comfortable wherever I am, and I can be anywhere and feel comfortable after three weeks. I adapt, and I'm like a chameleon. If a country doesn't have Internet, then I get used to not having the Internet. I could basically live anywhere. I'm a nomad at heart. Nothing is more boring than monotony.

  Julie Delpy

  Country, Heart, Three

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.

  Brie Larson

  Character, Expression, Singing

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

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• I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.

  William Shakespeare

  School, Color, Play

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• I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Different, Want, Limits

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• I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

  David Bowie

  Glam Rock, Life And Death, Music And Life

  Rolling Stone #206, February 12, 1976.

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• I'm like a chameleon. I can kind of change and get my game going to whatever the situation is. If I play well, which I don't think I've even reached yet at all in this tournament, it's really hard for anyone on the women's tour to beat me.

  Serena Williams

  Thinking, Games, Play

  "Chameleon Serena loves proving doubters wrong". Interview with Miles Evans, www.reuters.com. January 25, 2007.

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• Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Food, Light, Air

  'Good Night'

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• I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity

  Frank Herbert

  Roots, Giving, Identity

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.35, Penguin

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• Compassion is a chameleon: it can wear the face of fear, anger, sadness, joy or even dispassion, depending on what's needed at the time. The compassionate Buddha has a smile in one eye and a tear in the other, and our Buddha mission is to lead people to true freedom, not to hold their hand and tell them that everything is going to be all right. In teaching, compassion means doing whatever needs to be done to get to the next phase.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Teaching, Sadness, Mean

  Gabrielle Roth (2011). “Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement”, p.71, New World Library

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• I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

  David Bowie

  Music, Stars, Water

  "'I'm an Instant Star': The Definitive List of David Bowie's Best Quotes". nationalpost.com. January 11, 2016.

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• I'm a dude who likes to create music with good feeling. I live like a chameleon through music. It all depends on what the beat tells me to do; that's why you're always gonna get passionate hooks, because I'm feeling the beats and the emotion behind the drums and melodies.

  Kid Cudi

  Feelings, Hook, Passionate

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• I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

  David Bowie

  Graduation, Travel, Promise

  "Mourning David Bowie, Dead at 69" by Nicole Silverberg, www.gq.com. January 11, 2016.

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• What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Hate, Sight, Cold

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• I become a chameleon for wherever I am.

  Bob Saget

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

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• I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.

  Marisha Pessl

  Believe, Character, Writing

  "Off the Page: Marisha Pessl". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2006.

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• My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

  Alexandra Roach

  Ambition, Actresses, My Ambition

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• [William Butler] Yeats has the phrase Hodos Chameliontos, chameleon-like, in that you don't know where the beginning or the middle or the end is, so it's an unrelieved hallucination, because you don't know where you're coming in and you don't know where you're going out. It ends, you're going into the hallucination, or maybe coming out of it, I don't know.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Going Out, Phrases, Hallucinations

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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• The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.

  Will Cuppy

  Faces, Baboons, Footnotes

  "The Chameleon". "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.

  Stephan Pastis

  Writing, Ideas, Blenders

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• What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.

  John Keats

  Delight, Philosopher, Virtue

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.714, e-artnow

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• Aiyyo, camoflouge chameleon,
  ninjas scalin' your building,
  No time to grab the gun,
  I already got your wife and children

  RZA

  Children, Rap, Gun

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• I kind of consider myself a chameleon in music. I love all sorts of music.

  Nick Carter

  Kind

  "Nick Carter Talks Backstreet Boys' Future, Tearful New Single, Acting" by Jennifer Vineyard, www.mtv.com. November 11, 2002.

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