Top 1200 Being Me Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.

Being in the Girl Scouts took me out of the projects environment and showed me different things.

September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.

Because you are the one. You are better than me in some things, and I am better than you in others...I don’t mind being a bit like you. I hope you don’t mind being a bit like me.

My definition [of genius] would be about being completely involved in your art form. So that's outside of sciences. Within the arts it's about taking people on a journey, being able to involve me completely-whether you're singing a song, whether it's in the theater, whether you're dancing-if you can make me forget I'm sitting in a seat, that's my definition of genius.

Obviously people have guarded me a lot different because of me being able to make shots.

I'm a mad thinker in general. I think about everything, all the time. Especially when I write music, a lot of the influences come from personal experiences or from being on the outside looking in, being that person who witnessed things that stuck with me throughout my life.

Luck and being honest and sincere about work has worked for me and helped me reach where I am.

Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

I go from being in front of 2,000 people, shot-gunning beers on stage and acting like a complete idiot, to being in a Mommy and Me class, waving a little pink handkerchief around 12 hours later!

There's no pressure on me to be a particular weight. But I loathe being renowned as a 'larger' model. It makes me cringe.

I miss being able to have a drink in my local pub, which I can't do anymore, or being able to go to the shops without every second person staring at me and looking at my basket to see what I'm buying.

The world is so mysterious, and there's so many social interactions where I have no idea what I'm supposed to do - what's being asked of me, what's expected of me.

To Grandma, for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should wait until you’re done with elementary school before worrying about being a failed writer.

It bothered me that women were taught they can't be beautiful just being themselves - it filled me with rage.

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

I don't understand people who want to leave a good job. To me, without being terribly judgmental, those are people who haven't gone through their stint of being out of work for long periods of time.

Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second -- and best -- in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had a good night's sleep and not being hurt by new shoes.

I believe me being married, having a life outside of fighting, gives me a mental break.

There are a lot of people who talk about a formula for being able to start a fan base. But for me, it's been about songs and just being hard on myself as a writer, feeling like there is a purpose to it all.

Dear Heavenly Father, sometimes I feel like I’m not going to make it. Thank You for friends that come alongside me and cheer me on when I feel like I’m about to go under. Most of all, thank You for always being with me and cheering me on in the great race of life. I love You!

What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.

I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.

Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

My friends hated going out with me because people think they can grab you and talk to you how they want. At the end of the day, you're still a human being, and I don't like being treated that way - I prefer to live a quiet life.

There's a lot of talk about people being abused on Twitter, women being savagely insulted and degraded. I think, 'Why get into that in the first place?' If I jump into a garbage bin, I can't complain that I've got rubbish all over me.

Being funny is my biggest differentiator, and I think I'd be a fool not to use that, and there's nothing I enjoy personally more than making a human being laugh. But then, I also think I have a serious side to me.

For those that don't know, my sister was born with Down Syndrome, and she was institutionalized in the very early sixties. Me, being just a small boy and being shuffled around between my mother and grandparents, I never knew her.

A man who does not approach me because of my screen image or is intimidated by me is probably not being worth approached by.

I know for me, personally, when something is being said about me that isn't true, it's extremely hurtful and frustrating.

Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.

Being Prince's sister might get me in the door, but it is my own talent that keeps me on the stage.

Sometimes, when we're feeling challenged in life, we feel a pull to isolate, and for me part of the joy of being a wife, a mother, and in a cast of friends is allowing myself to be in spaces of love. So being open to that love.

My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

It's who I am. You win awards for sportsmanship and whatever, but that's just me being me. I'm not doing anything extra.

To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me."

Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.

I'm always made a little uncomfortable by studies that assert that Millennials are the most narcissistic generation in history. To me, being young has always meant being self-absorbed; in many ways, that's what youth is for.

I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.

It's such a stressful environment, I find, being an actor, being put in the chair and "Touch this, that, and the other," it's too much for me. I find it hard to tolerate that sort of stuff. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. You're wasting everyone's time.

I think the fashion industry is limitless. Not everyone sees me as being part of their vision. But the people that have seen me, some of them have seen things in me that I hadn't even seen in myself.

For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being an 'Old Negro', disassociating oneself from the symbols and legacy of slavery - being urbane, assertive militant.

Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

I like being me and portraying myself in a certain way that makes me feel comfortable and confident.

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.

At a very young age, I fell in love with the idea of being in a restaurant and being surrounded with people around me. I don't think at the time I thought about becoming a chef. I have a bachelor's degree in economics. I never went to a cooking school.

What drew me into being an actor was that I never got cast in the school plays - and it used to kill me.

Being a world champion was great, don't get me wrong, but it also caused me a lot of problems.

I'd love to see myself on sale in shops. It tickles me, does the idea of me being marketed.

People know me from my social media and television appearances and they'd see through me if I wasn't being honest.

There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.

I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. And to me that's something I'm working on now. I'm not really that difficult or complex a person, so it's interesting to me that it's just so much harder for me to play an everygirl.

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a kind of nightmarish labor. They're like animals being forced to pull heavy carts of vegetables at incredible speeds.

We all have our moments of being fed up ... but give me your hand and I'll hold it. If you are being bullied I am thinking of you. You are not alone and it will get better. Don't let them win. It's okay not to be okay.

I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, even though I left there. I've been clear about this since I was very young, and I never wanted to change. Barcelona is my home because both the club and the people here have given me everything, but I won't stop being Argentine.

For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters.