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.
Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference.
I worked at the golf course, and I always had dreams and aspirations of being a professional golfer.
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No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.
Be like Sasha Fierce. Be like Miley Cyrus. Be like Rihanna. Be like Lady Gaga. Be like Rita Ora and Sia. Be like Madonna. I cannot be like them, except to the extent that they are already being like me.
I was working with C. L. R. James; I believed in Marxist ideas about the labor and movement and the workers being the secret to the future. And I learned differently just by being in Detroit and being married to...
I've loved being in legislative office on a state level, and I think on a federal level there are so many more opportunities. I'm so excited to accomplish more.
Being the only Asian-American in the State Legislature, I've had no choice but to reach across the aisle.
I see musicians like Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris as more than just musical icons: they are planets, with a gravitational pull - from how they flip their hair just-so when they bow, right down to their hearty backstage banter....
Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.
There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.
It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being.
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
This is such a perfect kind of career for me because I love making videos and being in the studio and being on tour.
It's so different in the different states, it is sometimes like being in a different country.
