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.
If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.
When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the...
In Bosnia, the case was there were white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims who were being slaughtered and identified as Muslims. That really touched me.
The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
From the very beginning I knew I had to be a comedian, and thus preferred being one.
We teach the karate methodology, bringing back the history of the martial art, the attacks that stopped being used when the martial art became a sport and that my brother and I use in the cage.
It's lovely to be told you're wonderful by someone when you're used to being told how awful you are.
But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
