Ethel Merman Quotes

Be yourself -- it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else.

Ethel Merman

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• When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• 'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Yourself
  • Snow
  • Be Yourself

• Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Trying
  • Thought
  • Period

• Be yourself. And every person is unique.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Unique
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• Amidst globalisation, trends are becoming worldwide, so it's important to take a unique approach to what fashion has to offer. Be yourself in the middle of it all; fashion shouldn't be 'try hard.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Fashion
  • Unique

• You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Worry
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • You
  • Confidence
  • Be Yourself

• Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Punk
  • Be Yourself
  • Stray

• The most political thing you can do is be yourself

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Political
  • Be Yourself

• Be yourself. Don't pretend that you know something you don't. Don't create the appearance of fake authority. Speak about the things you really care about.

  

  Agnieszka Holland
  • Create
  • Pretend
  • Be Yourself

• Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged.

  

  Aliza Sherman
  • Engaged
  • Be Yourself
  • Conversational

• It is okay to be yourself, it is okay to color outside the line if that is who you are.

  

  Brad Cohen
  • Outside
  • Okay
  • Be Yourself

• The most important thing for you to do is see that in hoping to be affected by other things as fully as possible, you become more yourself.

  

  Eli Siegel
  • Be Yourself
  • Important Thing
  • Hoping

• Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.

  

  Beck
  • Work
  • Music
  • Want

• I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Bad
  • English

• I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Movie
  • Play
  • Taken

• Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Effort
  • Opportunities

• I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.

  

  LaToya London
  • Play
  • Picture
  • Motion

• When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doctor, who said hair was like grass: if you mow it, then it grows back stronger. So I went to Brittany, where nobody knew me, and I shaved my head. When it grew back - only the fringes!

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Hair
  • Stronger
  • Doctor

• I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Film
  • TV
  • Phases

• We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Small
  • Space
  • Warm

• Be yourself -- it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Be Yourself