- 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
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.
- Premier League
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wages that are being paid in the Premier League are very tempting. It would be hypocrisy to deny that.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this system, I've always played in the position behind the striker. I also don't enjoy being classed as a striker - I don't see myself as one.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm certainly afraid of not being able to write for some reason. I guess I've had spells of not necessarily writer's block, but something like that. I find that pretty terrifying.
- Importance
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- Nov 07, 2020
So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much about being a director is getting the show ready for that first preview audience. I have a lot of experience making events that only happen once; it's opening and closing night in the same three-hour span.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heavily-cleverly disguised low self-regard manifested itself in my constant showing off, my addiction for publicity, and my intolerable 'me-me-me' attitudes and actions. But it's done, isn't it? And no one can really change, can they? And, hey, it has been a lot of fun being the life-long irresponsible, snarky, nasty art scamp.
- Nov 07, 2020
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
- Being Used
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
- Collectively
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020