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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Real happiness is when you are happy for no reason at all; you are simply being.

To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

I’ve done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I’m enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

I am aware of the talent I was gifted and had to execute against it. It is just being very self aware and betting on your best strength.

Success is just being able to do what I love for a living, spend all my time doing it, connect with fans, and continue that for a long f – king time.

You can’t please everybody, and basically I just decided to please myself first on this record. This record is more like my diary and I am expressing myself through my music. And that’s what it should be about. That’s why I didn’t change my name or anything. It’s not about the name; it’s about the music. The old saying goes that video killed the radio star and it’s very true. And now I’m just letting everything revolve around the music. There is no image; I am just being myself.

Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.

People experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn’t make one part more important than the other. We live in a society that does not openly accept every kind of human being. And so the result is when you are yourself and someone who’s marginalized, it becomes a revolutionary act – just being comfortable in your own body and being comfortable speaking, sharing your ideas. It’s really amazing and also, like, kind of sad.

I remember what a thrill it was to attend my first Champions Dinner. Just being in the same room with some of the guys I had admired growing up and to be there because I had won The Masters was quite an honor. I still attend the dinner every year and it is one of the highlights of my time at Augusta during Masters week.

You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don’t easily conform to what the masses are doing, you’re looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ‘work,’ because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don’t always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.

If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You’d like to avoid it just being other people’s memories and interpretations.

But I’m a historian. I wasn’t interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

Celebrity and charity have been bedfellows for many years. The key is to try and choose practical, sound and effective ones. There is no shortage of solicitation for endorsement, so you have to really know what you’re getting behind and be passionate about it. In this case, aside from just being a spokesperson, they’re benefiting a form of expression that is dear to me, painting.

I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

I don’t think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.

I think it’s every girl’s dream, a little bit, to be a model because it seems from the outside to be a glamorous industry and I was really into fashion, and I remember just being excited and wanting to be part of that.

Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn’t commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn’t go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.

We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I said to them there that sanctions weren’t working; they were just being busted. And it did seem to me that one way that we could bring the apartheid regime down would be if we did mount an effective investment sanction.

The easiest way to gain someone’s trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you’re just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.

I’m not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Sweden is a small country and, well, our family’s pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn’t like the sound of just being ‘the fourth acting Skarsgard.

One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back then, just being kind of heavy and barrel-chested passed for heroic. Now, you wouldn’t dare to play a hero without a lot of dieting and various specialised abdomen machines. But that was one of the things which was interesting about it and I did want to portray because there’s good and bad.