- Person
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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
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.
- Homicide
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- Nov 07, 2020
Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female.
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.
- Creating
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- Nov 07, 2020