- Enjoy
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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
- Chocolate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was probably a little bit overweight as a child, being passionate about baked beans on toast and Cadbury's milk chocolate when I could get it.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no good being talented and not being in the right place at the right time.
- Computational
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- Nov 07, 2020
A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room by a lamp is being lit by that lamp.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who are seriously damaged by sudden fame and notoriety have, in my experience, very low esteem at the root of their being.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.
- Nov 07, 2020
You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.
- Nov 07, 2020
I do not like the way oppressed Filipinos are being treated now. They are oppressed and have no one to turn to.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many companies are just being big for the sheer sake of it. Too many CEOs thinking bigger is better.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
While being the husband of uberstylist Rachel Zoe lets me waltz confidently into fashion shows with Rachel by my side, the VIP treatment usually stops there.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers - not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020