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.
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I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.
At first, I wasn't really keen on the idea of me being on stage having to sing in front of people.
As far as being the longest-reigning X Division champion, it's a pretty remarkable achievement, due to all the men who have held it over the years.
Is it supposed to be a championship for a certain style of wrestlers? For wrestlers under a certain weight limit? I think over the years the one thing that has held the X-Division from being in a certain spot is...
Some days, I don't recognise my country, and other days, I see people being vocal and passionate, and I think, 'There's my country.'
I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.
To have a personal life is the minimum freedom you have to give to a human being.
My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.
The most valuable blacks are those in prison, those who have the warrior spirit, who had a sense of being African. They got for their women and children what they needed when all other avenues were closed to them.
If the elections are a mere fraud, why are terrorists being trained and infiltrated into India at the command of the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency of Pakistan to kill election candidates and to intimidate voters?
My parents believed in the ideology of the Left. And being influenced by Marxism and Leninism theories, they chose Marlena as my second name.
The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.
I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.
Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply...
How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.
I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.
