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.
I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.
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The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.
I'll be amazed in my lifetime if my business gets to being 5 per cent online.
This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear.
I want to play and be happy. I am not happy being on the bench, like most players.
Being called up to the national team isn't a competition of who's more patriotic.
I hope to keep being competitive until I retire, and I hope that's here. It's Barca or nothing.
All I learned in Barcelona was about being surrounded by stars, by the best in the world.
A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.
Being a celebrity, you can remain a child for ever, almost. You get away with more; you can get too pampered and it's not healthy.
I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.
My overwhelming memory of being a child is the huge amount of love I felt for my mum. She was my everything, because she was both my mum and my dad.
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
I've been boogie-boarding, off and on, since I was a kid. But I started being devoted to the cause of getting up every morning to surf, when I'm in Los Angeles, about a decade or so ago.
