- Hometown
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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
- Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.
- Noble
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalists like to give themselves credit for being on the hunt for 'the truth.' But if we embrace this undoubtedly noble but somewhat haughty interpretation of a calling, we inevitably become susceptible to slam dunk answers.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween every day.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exists in you. Your own dissatisfaction tells you so. But you believe the needed is somewhere outside of you.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose structures on a life. Life as it's lived has a far more complex shape.
- Sexuality
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- Nov 07, 2020