- Never
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm flattered to be called a sex symbol and, on occasion - if I've had a nice bottle of Beaujolais - I can imagine myself really being one.
- Nov 07, 2020
I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think being dead isn't any problem. It's the process of dying which is quite off-putting.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an astronaut, there are not a lot of things that have really shocked me in my life.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're being very careful that we don't send a spacecraft to Mars with the intention of detecting Martian life - and find out that we detected the Earth life that we took with us.
- Nov 07, 2020
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
- Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020