- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being Quotes
On identity, openness and staying true to yourself.
This set of quotes explores what it means to simply be: holding onto a child's spontaneity, embracing honesty that feels inappropriate in creative work, or aging with flexibility instead of resistance. For more on self-belief, see our Able quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Glasses
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
- Actor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.
- Constitutions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.
- Ghetto
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a fat kid - FFK, former fat kid - helped round me out, no pun intended. I'm a better adult because I wasn't treated well as a child.
- Hardened
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just like the idea of this creature or a being on the roof, you know? It's kind of spooky.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020