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.
Interesting-looking people have always been comedians, and it's rare that someone who has the choice to model ends up being a comic. Except for maybe Whitney Cummings, but that's about it. That's why she's special: because she can combine it.
I remember, after the Pamela Anderson roast, being told, 'You're sold out - you can add two more shows.'
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I was never obsessed with being adopted. I was simply curious about my biological parents.
It probably can take me anywhere I want to be, but I have to be honest, being attorney general is a great job.
For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.
I changed my mind about being a famous pop star when I realised that it meant I'd never be able to get on the Tube again.
That whole idea of chick lit being a thing that you just lump all the commercial female writers into - it went on for years.I'd switch on the radio, and I'd hear, 'Two female authors are here to discuss chick...
Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.
As a woman, I'd be uneasy about being given the power to determine what is insulting to women in general.
Criminality being partially preordained may seem to let culprits off the hook. Yet it also makes the proclivity seem ineradicable and suggests that reform is unlikely: once a baddie, always a baddie.
In economics, 'competitiveness' does not describe Barack Obama's insistence on not only being president of the U.S. but also beating his staff at bowling.
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
When I was growing up in California, being vegetarians differentiated my mother and me from normal, held us away from the masses.
As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function.
Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get...
