- 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
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just like being in fun fights.
- Hard Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.
- Ghetto
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Australia, there just weren't strong roles for actors of colour. I was often being asked to turn up for commercials with a ghetto blaster on my shoulder. I thought, 'Are we in the '60s?'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When they throw punches, the breathing, the sparring. The heavy bags being hit. All of that - it was a heavenly sound to me.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing has been given to Deontay Wilder. So with that being said, nothing is going to be taken from me. So I must stay focused. I must. I must. It is an absolute must to stay focused.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think models in general have a certain insecurity about themselves because they're known for being beautiful, so they have to prove to everybody they have personality and they are intelligent.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's seeing it for the first time.
- Distributed
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- Nov 07, 2020
C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.
- Hard Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't keep away from the public too much, but you had to be protected to some degree and I saw that in Paul a lot. People were obsessive about the Beatles. It's a hard thing to have to deal with being that famous.
- Moody
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- Nov 07, 2020