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But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.
Evan Davis
Good
,
Sometimes
,
Rather
Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.
Theresa May
Today
,
Past
,
Public
Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.
Cormac McCarthy
Help
,
Happen
,
Give
If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.
Anne Bancroft
Change
,
Work
,
Time
All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Danny Thomas
Life
,
Success
,
Nothing
I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'
Kevin Costner
Life
,
Famous
,
Person
And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.
Lester Bangs
Good
,
Words
,
Creative
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
Maya Lin
Art
,
Works
,
Harder
You should feel good about yourself because of your accomplishments. Not because somebody yelled at you to feel good about yourself.
Adam Carolla
Good
,
Somebody
,
Yelled
When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.
Adam Carolla
Show
,
Express
,
Radio
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.
Miuccia Prada
Today
,
Human
,
Fashion
The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.
Julie Burchill
Beauty
,
Best
,
Truth
Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.
Julie Burchill
Same
,
Works
,
Level
People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.
Pamela Anderson
Honest
,
Tell
,
Evolution
If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.
Ricky Williams
Great
,
Football
,
Problem
Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.
Ricky Williams
Two
,
Play
,
Growing
You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart.
Johannes Tauler
Strong
,
Heart
,
Tell
You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
David Viscott
Person
,
Begin
,
Becoming
I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.
Ace Frehley
Fight
,
Person
,
Everything
Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.
Wentworth Miller
Home
,
Children
,
Teach
I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.
Liz Phair
Away
,
Act
,
Ultimate
As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.
Charlie Kaufman
Funny
,
Sad
,
Present
People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.
Jason Aldean
Food
,
Night
,
Stop
I feel so good after a workout. Any time you can be alone with yourself is really important.
Shay Mitchell
Time
,
Good
,
Alone
Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.
Jose Mourinho
Positive
,
Try
,
Easy
That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.
Shirley Manson
Difficult
,
Question
,
Ridiculous
I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.
Shirley Manson
Life
,
Great
,
Done
You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.
Richard Roeper
Life
,
True
,
Give
You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.
Richard Roeper
Find
,
Against
,
Golf
If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.
Bryan Cranston
Life
,
Failure
,
Whatever
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