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.
It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.
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I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.
My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.
Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results...
I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.
I had the pleasure of knowing Ronald Reagan before he became Governor of California. He was a truly great human being and we usually spent our time together reminiscing about mutual friends.
I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.
Being in bands and plugging away with not many opportunities and no money for many years really shaped me and taught me about work ethic.
I'm 100 million percent not homophobic. I despise that label being attached to me.
I don't have anything against SyCo or 'X Factor' or any of that. I'm just a guy who got really afraid of not being in control.
What's fulfilling is being happy and being able to help other people. The simple things.
I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what would happen. That's youth, though. Being fixated on things. I was fixated on being a writer.
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.
I'm at my best when I'm being genuine and sincere, and reading my material straight up to an audience that wants to listen.
At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.
