- Conservative
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.
- Poet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in bands and plugging away with not many opportunities and no money for many years really shaped me and taught me about work ethic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm 100 million percent not homophobic. I despise that label being attached to me.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have anything against SyCo or 'X Factor' or any of that. I'm just a guy who got really afraid of not being in control.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's fulfilling is being happy and being able to help other people. The simple things.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what would happen. That's youth, though. Being fixated on things. I was fixated on being a writer.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020