- 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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being at the top means never being satisfied with what you're comfortable with - comfortable means you've stopped pushing, and you're either going to get passed, or you already have been. But if you're constantly pushing yourself, then you're exposing yourself to falls and injuries.
- Praise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are, and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.
- Start
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a while to get a movie together, and they don't start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.
- French Fries
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sisters started to cook at nine and, being one of the youngest, I wanted in on it, too, so I began at six on potato-peeling duty as french fries were my thing.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The industry sees animation as a genre rather than a medium. It has been pigeonholed into being just for kids' entertainment, and that's it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet removed geography as a significant obstacle that formerly prevented out-of-the-way places from being active players in the New Economy.
- Nov 07, 2020
You are given certain skills, and if you don't use them effectively, you are being irresponsible.
- Democratically
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1954, Guatemala's deposed president, the democratically elected Jacobo Arbenz, was forced to strip down to his underwear and photographed before being allowed to leave the country.
- Cargo
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early 1800s, both Spain and Portugal disseminated the smallpox vaccine throughout the Americas via the 'arm to arm of the blacks,' that is, enslaved Africans and African-Americans, often children, who were being moved along slave routes as cargo from one city to another to be sold.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020