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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
- Himself
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- Nov 07, 2020
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
- Expectation
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm in the studio, I'm very cautious about it because if there's one thing that can destroy music being made, it's any sort of agenda, expectation and/or schedule, or any of that.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm 100 percent convinced that Pablo Escobar was a human being. And he was a very interesting one. For sure, he was a very, very, very mean and awful human being in many senses, but he wasn't an alien. He was a person. He had friends; people laughed at his jokes. And he was a very contradictory person as well.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Narcos' was a very strong experience, not only artistically and politically, but as a human being.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.
- Human Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
- Nov 07, 2020