- Always
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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
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked at the golf course, and I always had dreams and aspirations of being a professional golfer.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
- Collapsing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be like Sasha Fierce. Be like Miley Cyrus. Be like Rihanna. Be like Lady Gaga. Be like Rita Ora and Sia. Be like Madonna. I cannot be like them, except to the extent that they are already being like me.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was working with C. L. R. James; I believed in Marxist ideas about the labor and movement and the workers being the secret to the future. And I learned differently just by being in Detroit and being married to Jimmy Boggs.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've loved being in legislative office on a state level, and I think on a federal level there are so many more opportunities. I'm so excited to accomplish more.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being the only Asian-American in the State Legislature, I've had no choice but to reach across the aisle.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see musicians like Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris as more than just musical icons: they are planets, with a gravitational pull - from how they flip their hair just-so when they bow, right down to their hearty backstage banter. It takes decades to learn the innuendos of being gracious and genuine all at once.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being.
- Lazy
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- Nov 07, 2020