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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
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Hardys were a huge influence on me becoming a wrestler. Not so much the moves themselves, but the concepts behind the moves: trying to be innovative and just being exciting.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live by myself, so I derive a lot of joy from being with my friends and their families.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.
- Human Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.
- Nov 07, 2020