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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just didn't see anyone on TV who looked like me, and then I saw George Takei being cool and piloting the spaceship on television.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our species likes being social.
- Nature
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And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
- Farmers
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to draw the line someplace with all the pesticides being used by the farmers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our audience for SCTV was older than today's moviegoers, and with the cost of making movies being what it is today, it's hard for the studios to take the kind of risks we took.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of engineering advances that lend themselves to being married with medical advances.
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What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.
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I remember seeing a stage version of Plato's 'Symposium' and being really moved because it was written by a man rather than a culture.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity pylons, telephone masts and gas pipelines.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being Christlike guarantees that you'll have the most important friend of all: the Savior. He knows what it's like to be misunderstood, lonely, and rejected.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve of being discharged, and thereby flooded the country with a revenue, when discharged, which could not be absorbed by the most lavish expenditures.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one, I trust - and none the worse for being a slaveholder.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay.
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- Nov 07, 2020