- Loved
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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
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.
- Chameleon
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.
- Financial
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're barely scratching the surface of how people experience and utilize p2p payments, despite it being a multi-millennium-old behavior.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
- Nov 07, 2020
My parents have been married multiple times each, so the idea of being committed to somebody was scary.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be doing something that I love and actually being able to feed myself by doing it.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not good for me to see things while they're being edited. I can be highly critical, so I try to stay away.
- Nov 07, 2020