- Myself
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think chemistry is just about two people being comfortable with one another.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
That preconceived notion of me being inaccurate is completely false, and I look forward to changing that over time.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football? Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them break. I was too sensitive for that and disliked being that sensitive.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.
- Naked
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were mainly concerned about nudity - how much could be shown in 1959 and how much would convey, without being gratuitous, the terror of being attacked naked and wet.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Vampire Diaries' is a great show, but it's on the verge of being overcrowded. The amount of characters, a lot of them don't get screen time because there's so much to put in, and it has to center around the love triangle.
- Better Writer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.
- Even Worse
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.
- Nov 07, 2020
We have a strong tradition in our country of senior leaders being apolitical, nonpartisan.
- Nov 07, 2020
One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.
- Damn Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020