- Life
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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
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being morally honest means sitting down and actually listening to a person and understanding where they're coming from.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
If stop-and-frisk was a fair and balanced practice that targeted everybody equally across the board, then I could understand the extra precautions being taken, but since it's a practice that targets blacks and Hispanics and gives the police the right to lawfully profile us, I'm not with it.
- Discriminated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate prejudice on any level. I don't care if it's somebody being discriminated against because of the color of their skin or their sexuality or their gender or financial status.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being gay is not a crime.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would go through these cycles of being really, really focused on work, and not being around anyone, to being around everyone. And that could be distracting. It was nothing or everything.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, being a complete artist means not necessarily just being in front of the camera, but being behind the camera or being the originator or creator of something.
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really interested in being a superhero. That's not a box I've been trying to check off.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brock Lesnar made a career out of refusing to do media and not being accessible.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Werdum's open to being knocked out in any fight because he's so reckless, but that's also what makes him so damn dynamic.
- Nov 07, 2020