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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
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started in the era when Hollywood reveled in being the most cost-inefficient industry on the planet. They used to commission a hundred scripts for every one they made.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
In October 2008, American commandos launched a cross-border raid into Syria to capture an Islamic militant known as Abu Ghadiya. He was accused of being one of al Qaeda in Iraq's main smugglers of fighters and money between Iraq and Syria.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Bashar Assad's regime is in the unique position of being targeted both by Israel and supporters of al Qaeda.
- Persistence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advertising has a problem. They're being squeezed because media buyers and digital firms are doing the creative. They're being squeezed because people aren't viewing their stuff.
- Marketing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pace of change in marketing and the marketplace continues to accelerate. Unicorn companies are challenging long-established brands, and categories are being re-imagined.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can recall photographs of Comrade Ulbricht being embraced by Comrade Brezhnev, which must have been like putting your arms around Grant's Tomb.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic, such as Gogol and Dostoyevsky, just as it was in my own household when I was growing up.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020