- Choices
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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
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
- Beneficent
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I finish the game, and sometimes I don't play very well, and my grandmother calls up to ask why I haven't played well. Instead of being criticised by Pep, it's my grandmother!
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that everyone, regardless of their beliefs, deserves the dignity of being called by their name.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned a lot from being in hell. I learned discipline. I learned that I choose what to put in my body.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you create series and products, sometimes there's specific situations where your content is being infringed... in very rare cases, somebody produces a beat-by-beat version of your exact series, which has happened to us.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I changed it to Leslie Hill, only that seemed more like a cocktail pianist. Eventually, being an admirer of Jack Benny, I took his name.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020