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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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went on tour with my father, I knew he was a musician. But they were my parents. I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork.
- Harmony
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- Nov 07, 2020
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
- Free Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.
- Nov 07, 2020
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona's right to assert concurrent jurisdiction.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family.
- Breeze
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020