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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates, but allow for people to avoid being exposed to inflation risk.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being human means there's a wall-builder in each of us. Our minds naturally divide the world into me and not-me, us and them. For thousands of years, our sages have taught that we're all one, yet we still divide wherever we look.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not good at being lionized, and when I'm in 'Grateful Dead'-type situations, that happens.
- Being There
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- Nov 07, 2020
I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.
- Math
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm tired of being 51st in this country on the NEAP scores on fourth-grade math. We don't have but 50 states.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm guilty of being perceived as having narrow taste. I went after the artists that I thought were important - Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen and stuff.
- Bond
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- Nov 07, 2020