Top 1200 Pretending To Be Someone Else Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.

If you don't control your life, someone else will.

If I signed a contract that meant someone else wouldn't be playing.

It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

Every great thinker is someone else's moron.

If you lend your consciousness to someone else, you're a robot.

It's easier to see the mistake on someone else's paper.

Until someone else does... marry yourself

It's really liberating and fun to be writing stuff for myself, and really have the freedom to say what I want to say and not really have to think about what somebody else is going to say or have to edit myself to speak from someone else's vision.

What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.

Be yourself. It's really important not to try and be someone else.

There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.

Be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you.

People used to say everyone knows someone who's had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I've learned something else: Everyone has someone close to them who has had breast cancer.

Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate; and then if they go off and do something with someone else and both derive joy from it without any apparent harm to anyone else, the Church excommunicates them - that, to me, is bizarre.

A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.

Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

Sometimes I can't tell that someone is a selective asshole because they're so nice to me and the people around me that I don't realize it until someone else says, "You know, that person is an asshole." So I'll be fooled by selective assholes sometimes . . . lately.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing."

Never get in the middle of someone else's quicksand.

Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.

I'm absolutely open to scripts written by someone else.

I live to eat - when someone else cooks for me.

If you ever have to ask someone else's opinion on a trade, you shouldn't be in it.

Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?

It's easier at times to pick at what someone else does.

I have been styling my own hair since I was four years old ... and I still don't let anyone else touch it to this day. I cut, color, style, and spray my own hair, on all sets and shoots, that's just the way it goes. I get way too nervous when someone else starts to mess with it.

Expose yourself as you are without trying to be someone else.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

Minibars are very appealing, especially when someone else is paying.

Something I like to do is watch someone else do their thing.

All we know about Jesus is what someone else wrote down... so really one should say, "Here is what someone wrote down that they said Jesus said..." this isn't uncertainty on purpose, just plain speaking.

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

Your first attempt will be terrible.... Remember that everything great you see started out as someone else's bad first draft..... Whenever someone sends me a manuscript and says, 'It just flowed out of me,' I usually think: Let it flow back into you for a while.

Almost everyone can do or be something for someone else in need.

There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.' It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don't know, I'd like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color.

The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.

Just remember, Someone is on your side (our side) Someone else is not While we're seeing our side Maybe we forgot: they are not alone. No one is alone.

My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

No actor wants to play someone else's performance.

We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass.

I feel like when you're videoing someone and you catch Tiger at a bad time, you show him accidentally doing something, or someone else, they're just frustrated because they really care about the game. It could really hurt them if they catch you at a potentially vulnerable time.

Profit is a reward for satisfying the desire of someone else.

I'm really not one to brag, but I think my job is one of the most important things someone can do with their life. I mean, it really gives people a chance to live outside their means through someone else's vision. And I think that's something really great that I can give back to the community. Sure I could be a doctor or a lawyer, but do they really help anyone? Sure you can save someone's life, but can you really change it for the better? I'm not saying their jobs aren't important, just not as important as mine.

You can't let someone else's agenda hijack your day.

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!

What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.