Just Being Quotes - Page 21

• I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can't. You have to restrict yourself at some time, or else you find yourself just being spread too thin. And already I think I try too many things.

  Pete Seeger

  Thinking, Temptation, Finding Yourself

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• The hardest thing about being a guy is that women don't accept that you really are just a simple, pathetic, labrador retriever-like creature. That we live in a world were women actually expect you to think thoughtful thoughts, and have real emotions, which we don't have. Having to try to live up to the imaginary ideal that women have of what men are, instead of just being what you are, which is just a pathetic creature, but still.

  Dave Barry

  Real, Thoughtful, Simple

  Interview with McClain Johnson, mcclainjohnson.com.

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• As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.

  Maggie Q

  Journey, Thinking, Helping

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• People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie... It's all been really interesting.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Fun, Thinking, People

  "Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark (and merchandising)". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. October 28, 2009.

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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 think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  K. D. Lang

  Emotional, Thinking, Singing

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• What is success? I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years.

  Paul Polman

  Thinking, Years, Careers

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Gay, Shapes, Used

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• I fired a bunch of people and kind of went back to my roots. I fired my agent - I had this big, fancy agent and a big fancy manager and a big fancy lawyer - and I went back to my first agent and said, "I want to go back to just being an actor."

  Matthew Lillard

  Roots, People, Actors

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• As a kid who failed out of high school as a freshman, I know firsthand and personally that sense of hopelessness and just being - drifting in the wrong direction, having really no hope. And being able to harness that frustration was incredibly valuable in my life. That's one of the reasons I focus so consistently on the foundation of education, because it helps to eviscerate those things that - unemployment, high jobless rates, poverty.

  Tim Scott

  School, Kids, Frustration

  "Should government play a role in addressing root causes of Baltimore’s upheaval?". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2015.

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• I get a huge kick out of training people, out of helping people, out of just being a part of a process that I get to see people's dreams come true.

  Greg Jackson

  Dream, Mma, People

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• New York's a big playground. I have a bike, and I'm really into just being outside. Especially in the summertime.

  Chace Crawford

  New York, Summertime, Bigs

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2009.

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• I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman it amazes me still.

  Jenni Rivera

  Artist, People, Being Myself

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• I know firsthand how alone you can feel when you’re being broken down in a relationship and forced to defend it or stay silent. Just being able to send a text message is anonymous and safe. Mary Kay and I believe that everyone deserves a safe, healthy relationship that makes you stronger and better and I want to make sure people know how to get the help they need.

  Debby Ryan

  Believe, People, Broken

  "Jessie Star Debby Ryan Named Voice of Dating Abuse Prevention Campaign" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. February 17, 2015.

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• I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

  Randeep Hooda

  Drama, Hero, Character

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• It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.

  Roger Ebert

  Firsts, Kind, Film

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• I never really thought about acting as a child. It wasn't like, "This is the career that I want to pursue." So when I first started acting, I was more concerned with just being on a set and all of the woes of that, and I didn't really know it or understand it as a craft yet.

  Blake Lively

  Children, Careers, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What is pronounced these days is staying on the Internet for hours. It's really about distraction. We are living in such an over stimulated culture. There's a nervous energy of always having to be focused out there. People have a hard time just being happy, settled, and content. We're not taught how to just be by ourselves, be present. We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.

  Geneen Roth

  Hard Times, People, Mind

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.

  Warren Farrell

  Parent, Miracle, Made

  "Bridges to Heaven: How Well-Known Seekers Define and Deepen Their Connection with God". Book by Jonathan Robinson, 1994.

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• The challenge is not finding the attitude, but it's really just being open and willing to go for it and try different things, and having a director that you can trust. The attitude is not something that I intended or created.

  Chris Pratt

  Attitude, Challenges, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• My confidence allows me to do things my way and help people make a decision. People like the idea of me just being me.

  Curtis Jackson

  Ideas, People, Decision

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being alive is a pleasure and a miracle. They feel like moments when the shutters of the mind are open so I can look out. It also feels as if those same shutters have no hooks to fix them in an open position. One small wind and bang-they slam shut.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Thinking, Wind, Miracle

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• There were a lot of teen stars that were very cookie-cutter... I'm just being me.

  Justin Bieber

  Stars, Cookies, Being Me

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I know that I'm an actor and I guess I could kind of put on an act, but it takes so much more time to be someone you are not. I feel so much better just being comfortable with myself and hopefully girls will accept that.

  Brie Larson

  Girl, Actors, Kind

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

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• I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.

  Jo Nesbo

  Character, Interesting, Matter

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