Fit Quotes - Page 33

• I look white to a lot of people. And I'm not. I'm African-American. I'm mixed. I like to call myself Mulatto because that definition fits. So, you know, I've dealt with the conflict my whole life between how I look and my actual ethnic and racial identity.

  Mat Johnson

  White, People, African American

  "Mat Johnson On 'Loving Day' And Life As A 'Black Boy' Who Looks White". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• I learned [playing Chuck Berry] that there's something to be said for the courage of conviction, that sense of belief, being bold enough to believe in your vision. And there's a quote that really fits his particular energy. It says - they say don't go where the path may lead, but go where there's no path and leave a trail. I think that's exactly what Chuck did, you know. It's an inspiration to a lot of folks, not just musicians, but people everywhere.

  Mos Def

  Believe, Inspiration, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've never fit in in any music world. I've always been an outsider. I mean, the fact that I live in Indiana - I live in a fly-over state... I'm not running away from anything, that's the problem. Most people go to cities because they don't like where they come from.

  John Mellencamp

  Running, Mean, Cities

  Source: www.today.com

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• It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience.

  Michael Schur

  Writing, Character, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The world is undoubtedly going through great changes.  The only question is whether the outcome will be the good of Aryan humanity or profits for the Jew.  The task of the national state will, therefore, be to preserve the race and fit it to meet the final and great decisions on this globe by suitable education of its youth.

  Adolf Hitler

  Race, Decision, Humanity

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• The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.

  William Shakespeare

  Guests, Dull, Fighter

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Henry IV”, p.96, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I shall be supplied with whatever I need; and, if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit for me, or I shall have it in due time.

  Matthew Henry

  Desire, Needs, May

  Matthew Henry, George Whitefield, Alexander MacLaren (2001). “Classic Sermon Outlines”, p.12, Hendrickson Publishers

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• We are not here to fit in...we are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being...we are here to become more and more ourselves.

  James Hollis

  Self, Different, Mosaics

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• Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honesty, Believe, Heart

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• I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't trust him to follow his own leads; guide him; tell him what to do; tell him what he should think; tell him what he should learn. Consequently at the very age when he should be developing adult characteristics of choice and decision making, when he should be trusted on some of those things, trusted to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, he is, instead, regimented and shoved into a curriculum, whether it fits him or not.

  Carl Rogers

  Mistake, Educational, Thinking

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• About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes

  Steve Yegge

  Ideas, Squares, Design

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• I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

  Dean Karnazes

  Jobs, School, College

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• I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.

  Nasim Pedrad

  School, Names, Parent

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• I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!

  Amanda Righetti

  Jobs, People, Laughing

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• The ability to fight isnt a one-size fits all; everybody is different.

  Melissa McBride

  Fighting, Different, Size

  "'Walking Dead' Dissection: Melissa McBride Talks Carol's Devastating Decision". Interview with Gene Page, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 16, 2014.

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• Running has been great for keeping me fit throughout my acting career.

  Jason Flemyng

  Running, Careers, Acting

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• I dont see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.

  Barkhad Abdi

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

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• The world is complex, and so too must be the activities that we perform. But that doesn't mean that we must live in continual frustration. No. The whole point of human-centered design is to tame complexity, to turn what would appear to be a complicated tool into one that fits the task, that is understandable, usable, enjoyable.

  Donald A. Norman

  Mean, Frustration, Design

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• I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.

  Magda Apanowicz

  Growing Up, Fun, School

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• The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.

  John Rhys-Davies

  Careers, Actors, Structure

  Intervie with Ken P., www.ign.com. January 22, 2004.

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• If someone doesn't fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you're holding them back from excelling elsewhere.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Obligation, Company, Elsewhere

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2016

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• I feel like women are frequently seen as guests in the comedy world - you know, a kid sister of the “real comedians”. I like the idea of positioning myself as legendary rather than trying to fit in. Now do I see myself like that every day? No, but I think it's a funny attitude and maybe on some weird, spiritual level, maybe it's a good attitude.

  Chelsea Peretti

  Spiritual, Attitude, Real

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• As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else.

  Kelli Berglund

  Girl, Teenage, Insecure

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• I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.

  Ross Kemp

  Two, Going Away, Months

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• The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and... country?

  Kacey Musgraves

  Country, Two, Today

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