- Dead
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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
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out.
- No Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no future in being poor.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.
- Educate
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't become a policeman, so being county prosecutor is the next best thing.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need supporting actors to help to tell the story. For me, I'm lucky to be a part of the films. Being an actor, I'll take any role, whether it's supporting or leading.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
- Fatty
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- Nov 07, 2020