Top 1200 Pretending To Be Someone Else Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

It's annoying when people tag my name in their conversation with someone else [on Twitter.]

Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.

It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.

Opportunity is never lost... it simply moves on to someone else if you don't seize it!

Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?

It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be.

It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.

I just wanted to jump out of my body sometimes and be someone else.

Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.

I didn't want to tell my story through my words in someone else's voice.

Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.

Computers shouldn't be parents, but they are. Please, spend time with your kids. If you don't want to, then I don't want to. It might hurt you to discipline your offspring, but it saves the child from being disciplined later by someone less forgiving. Like a criminal court judge. If you don't spank your child, someone else will.

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.

We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

Strong Women never put their safety or their self-esteem aside to please someone else or to keep a man. If someone acts inappropriately or abusively in any way (including becoming emotionally abusive), Strong Women stand up for themselves and make it abundantly clear that they will not tolerate the abuse. If this doesn't work, they walk away.

Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

This is a global economy. If you're not at the bargaining table, if you don't get an agreement, someone else does.

I hate the idea of people thinking they are better than someone else.

To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.

If you don’t take responsibility for programming yourself, then someone else will.

Who someone loves should never be an issue at work or anyplace else.

You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.

You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.

I wanted to feel like I could extend someone else's joy and not crush it, and that is the giant paradox nowadays of being a powerful woman: you want to live in a space of compassion and helpfulness and joy and expression, and the world is standing there, pointing the finger at you and telling you that you're greedy and domineering and attention-grabbing, and all you can do is shrug and just say, "Hopefully, someone out there understands and isn't misinterpreting."

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

Sensitive, shy-of course I was. The fun of acting is to become someone else.

Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose

The worst thing you can do is to put your life aside for someone else.

I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.

The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in meat production that it would tolerate nowhere else. If someone inflicts pain on an animal for visual, aural, or sexual gratification, we consider him a monster, and the law makes at least a token effort at punishment. If someone's goal is to put the "product" in his mouth?

Sometimes it helps to see the world through someone else's eyes.

Being sick feels like you're wearing someone else's glasses.

It's always uneven, love; it's unbalanced and it's obviously even worse when it comes to someone wanting to part from someone who isn't willing to. It's often feeling hurt that you've never felt before and you want somebody else to feel that pain and also not wanting to let go, because when you let go you've got to start living your life again and it consumes people.

The most I like about cooking is eating what someone else has cooked.

I really care about people, and I would need someone to also genuinely value other human beings and want to be connected with people in the world and to know about other cultures. That might not be a high standard for someone else, but for me, it's really important to try and stick to that.

The problem is there are so many stories out there where I can pull that superhero out, put any other superhero in, and the story works the same. For me, that's broken. I have to write a story that no one else but Aquaman or Shazam can be in, and as soon as you pull that character out and out someone else in, it doesn't work.

It was really bizarre, that Sabzian business. You know I had no interest in being photographed before this incident. But then not just Sabzian—many other people started pretending they were me! One of them actually got married while pretending he was me! My face became publicly recognizable soon after I decided to have a few photographs of me available in public to prevent these sorts of identity thefts. It is really pathetic, if you think of it. Filmmakers and filmmaking is so popular in Iran because all other forms of expression have been denied to people.

Ultimately, however, the script an actor enlivens is someone else's words.

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

There is no better taste than this: someone else’s laughter in your mouth.

As a writer, it is always fun to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes.

Be someone who genuinely seeks to understand, and you will be wise. Be someone kind, someone considerate, and you will be admired. Be someone who values truth, and you will be respected. Be someone who takes action, and you will move life forward.

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you - who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything.

Any question you have, most likely someone else is having as well.

I don't want to help brand someone else and not have equity or ownership in that company.

It is always better to make your own mistakes and not someone else's.

There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sincerity. Yet many others search their entire lives for something—or someone—worth dying for and this is very different. These are the lonely and the desperate, fearful that their lives have no meaning. They yearn for the bullet, if only someone else will pull the trigger.

it’s easy to get outside yourself when you’re thinking about someone else.

Conflict comes from a person's own actions, not what someone else does to them.

In my experience, people who are truly compassionate rarely use the word "compassion." Those who do talk compassion generally intend to be compassionate with your money, not their own. It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that 'compassion'.

Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage?

I never trusted any man not to find someone else; to stay with me if he had another option. to not find something in me that would have him heading for the hills. that was the other reason for not thinking long-term- when someone walked out, as they invairiably did, it wasn't too big a shock. a disappointment but nothing, I hadn't been expecting.