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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
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A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows.
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As a little boy, I never felt comfortable with being human.
- Nov 07, 2020
My mind jumbles things, reassembles them, and plays with words without even being asked.
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If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.
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Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.
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I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.
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Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.
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As a human, you don't have to be too conscious of your movement. I think it's tougher playing a robot than a human, and even tougher playing a robot who begins showing traces of being a human.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting stuck in a plane for four hours on the tarmac on the hottest day of summer in Italy - it was like being trapped in a boiling tin can.
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I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.
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Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage.
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Being real is what is important.
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Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.
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- Nov 07, 2020