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 couldn't reconcile being a progressive feminist with being the mother of a male: advocating for policies that discriminated against him and targeted him simply for his sex, advocating an ideology that was a direct contradiction to my role as...
There is nothing more amusing than when two people known for being non-objective argue over objectivity. This is the summation of Keith Olbermann vs. Ted Koppell.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.
I really don't want my daughters to know me for being that guy who sings songs.
The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.
My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage...
Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.
