- Family
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For people to mischaracterize my time or ownership of Blackwater as being some great financial bonanza, it was not. It was most definitely not.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved being a SEAL. I loved working with those kind of guys and a sense of mission, and Blackwater was started to continue that sense of mission.
- Perfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
- Graduate Student
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
- Priest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being the first in my family to go to college, I believe, is my greatest accomplishment. It's not my accomplishment; it's my family's accomplishment.
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020