- Human Being
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does something to you.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I have grown impatient with just being a writer.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.
- Coupled
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rapid development in areas like machine-to-machine communications and the Internet of Things, coupled with the proliferation of big data, means higher-skilled professions, such as lawyers, journalists and accountants, are changing too. Some of their tasks are being replaced.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like being a celebrity.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like being disappointed by somebody I trust. Fortunately, it rarely happens.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a bad habit of not being able to do things cheap.
- Past
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I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.
- Me
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Somebody asked me, 'Why do people like vampires so much?' This was right after Obama had been elected and I said, 'Because we just spent eight years being sucked dry by one.'
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020