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"Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do - it's always now. It's all there is. And if you continuously miss the now - resist it, dislike it, try to get away from it, reduce it to a means to an end, then you miss the essence of your life, and you are stuck in a dream world of images, concepts, labels, interpretations, judgments - the conditioned content of your mind that you take to be yourself."
"Never apologize for being yourself."
"Embrace the glorious mess that you are"
"Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing."
"Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen"
"Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will say, Don't you mean agnostic? I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one...etc., etc. It's easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal and that it's an opinion I hold seriously."
"I think it's a confusing, tough thing. I mean, I can imagine in this situation. Being a single dad myself now and trying to do the right thing in your children's eyes and in the eyes of your friends and family and all that and then at the other end of the spectrum, you're also trying to date and you want to be yourself and you want to let go."
"Be yourself and the right people will love you."
"All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view."
"He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things."
"...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms."
"You've got to be humble really to be yourself or to get a chance to be yourself."
"There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself."
"Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through."
"I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are."
"If you don't feel free and be yourself, you can't connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They'll heal your soul."
"The girl that I wanna save is like a danger to my health Try being wit somebody that wanna be somebody else."
"It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself.’ Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is."
"Well it's hard to be yourself, it's the hardest job there is."
"I'm the pink sheep in the family."
