Just Being Quotes - Page 15

• Someone will say to me, Oh that's so Jewish to interrupt. I say to myself, okay, is that code for you hate Jews? Or am I just being paranoid?

  Jill Soloway

  Hate, Paranoid, Okay

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Technology, Dna, Tree

  "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

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• I'm just being the artist that I would have loved if I was a child.

  Dawn Angelique

  Children, Artist, Ifs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Just throw me in a time machine, hit random, and wherever I land would be great... Just being thrown into a different time really fascinates me.

  Beau Mirchoff

  Land, Different, Would Be

  "Beau Mirchoff Interview: ‘Awkward’ Star Talks Time Machines, High School & Matty’s Love Life". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2011.

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• They're a handful, but Emily deals with that all the time and, as an actor, I deal with that all the time, so you just ignore it. When Julia [Jones] first came on set, she was like, "How do you deal with it?," and I told her, "You just tune it out after awhile." They were competing with each other, doing push-ups and just being ridiculous, so you just have to zone out.

  Tinsel Korey

  Tunes, Actors, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that there is a lot of power in a gay guy having a really (hopefully) successful music career while just being completely openly gay and honest and happy.

  Troye Sivan

  Gay, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• You have to observe a few simple rules in dressing, which are really not rules; it's just being appropriate. If you're 70 and want to wear miniskirts, 70-year-old knees ain't pretty!

  Iris Apfel

  Simple, Years, Want

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• A lot of people think my sarcasm comes from insecurity and defensiveness, but I assure you I'm just being petty and cruel.

  Dana Gould

  Sarcasm, Thinking, People

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• My wife is a vegetarian. When my wife is with me, I eat vegetarian. When she's not, I eat meat. I'm just being honest.

  J. B. Smoove

  Wife, Meat, Honest

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• If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd like to avoid it just being other people's memories and interpretations.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Memories, People, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Actors don't act, we're just being in a different circumstance and scenario.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Different, Actors, Circumstances

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• Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I've worked on - it's really about just being the artist I am.

  Big Sean

  Artist, Feelings, Comfortable

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My purpose in life, my goal for the NBA is to preach God's word - not just try to beat everybody over the head with a Bible but just being a good example and always conducting myself in a Christian-like manner.

  Dwight Howard

  Christian, Nba, Goal

  "NBA All-Star Dwight Howard talks about family, faith and destiny". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• When you drive to the grocery store, your intention is not to change the world, it just happens to have that impact. So we've done a lot of things without even realizing it, and yes, just being unusual, as you say, does not put you above, in a sense, any of the other organisms with whom we share this planet.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Impact, Doe, Done

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Ratbert (as lab rat, to scientist): Doc, we have to talk. Every day you feed me over a hundred pounds of macaroni and cheese. At first I thought you were just being a good host. But lately I've been thinking it could be something far more sinister.

  Scott Adams

  Science, Thinking, Labs

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• Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.

  Chris Robinson

  Dad, Artist, Different

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

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• Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.

  Matthew Kelly

  Prayer, Great Love, Dating

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.158, BookBaby

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• To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.

  Peter Abrahams

  Real, Nice, People

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• 99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

  Mark Webber

  Children, Parent, Your Children

  Source: collider.com

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• I really believe in the value of just being more present with the people you're around.

  Clayton Snyder

  Believe, People, Values

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back then, just being kind of heavy and barrel-chested passed for heroic. Now, you wouldn't dare to play a hero without a lot of dieting and various specialised abdomen machines. But that was one of the things which was interesting about it and I did want to portray because there's good and bad.

  Ben Affleck

  Hero, Issues, Play

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I enjoy just being cocooned in production and it's completely different to your other life that you have. I enjoy that. I enjoy being on the set and hanging out and talking to whoever we're working with and just being in the moment.

  Eric Bana

  Talking, Different, Moments

  "Eric Bana Interview, Hanna". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• You cannot keep on saying oh, you know, talking about disrespecting women as just being politically correct or it's not a big deal or brushing things off. You've got to be aware of it.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Talking, Bigs, Deals

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I am aware of the talent I was gifted and had to execute against it. It is just being very self aware and betting on your best strength.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Strength, Self, Talent

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• Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Humor, Passengers

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