- Artist
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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
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I've been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I've been in the NBA.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
- Big Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 37 years in the Navy, there were no further jobs in uniform, and it was my time to transition. But I wanted to continue to mentor and educate young people, which is, of course, a big part of being a senior officer in the military.
- Nerves
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being unprepared heightens nerves.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
The body itself is an information processor. Memory resides not just in brains but in every cell. No wonder genetics bloomed along with information theory. DNA is the quintessential information molecule, the most advanced message processor at the cellular level - an alphabet and a code, 6 billion bits to form a human being.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not just being called to the ministry that counts.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.
- Curious
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- Nov 07, 2020