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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
- Nov 07, 2020
I remember, after the Pamela Anderson roast, being told, 'You're sold out - you can add two more shows.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never obsessed with being adopted. I was simply curious about my biological parents.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It probably can take me anywhere I want to be, but I have to be honest, being attorney general is a great job.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm proud of being Hispanic.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being attractive and being credible can and do go together.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I changed my mind about being a famous pop star when I realised that it meant I'd never be able to get on the Tube again.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That whole idea of chick lit being a thing that you just lump all the commercial female writers into - it went on for years.I'd switch on the radio, and I'd hear, 'Two female authors are here to discuss chick lit - is it dead?' and I'd think, 'Argh, no, not again. Are we seriously still having this conversation?'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.
- Nov 07, 2020
As a woman, I'd be uneasy about being given the power to determine what is insulting to women in general.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Criminality being partially preordained may seem to let culprits off the hook. Yet it also makes the proclivity seem ineradicable and suggests that reform is unlikely: once a baddie, always a baddie.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In economics, 'competitiveness' does not describe Barack Obama's insistence on not only being president of the U.S. but also beating his staff at bowling.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up in California, being vegetarians differentiated my mother and me from normal, held us away from the masses.
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- Nov 07, 2020