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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.
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I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.
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I don't have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don't think I retired so that I could be on tour.
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It's a natural blessing. Thanks to God. He gave me this ability of being chubby but still being fast and being able to hit hard.
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Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good.
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I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!
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You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything.
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I found a great mentor early on in my career, Dave Duffield - a legendary software innovator, great individual, and a wonderful leader and human being.
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Because of the mainstreaming of academia's victimhood culture, we are now in a place where we place more value on being a victim than on being heroic, charitable, or even kind.
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As somebody who happens to be gay, I particularly resent that minorities are being encouraged to be fragile and bitter.
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It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.
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Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.
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Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company.
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