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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
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
- Human Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
- Intelligent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
To tell the truth, I don't feel the pressure of fame. I don't have the problem of being a celebrity in terms of recognizability.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see myself maybe being, like, a movie producer or screenwriter or a novelist or a scientist or mathematician.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone's OK with being the 'transgender girl,' that's fine, but that's not me.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.
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- Nov 07, 2020