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.
When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it,...
An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
The Hardys were a huge influence on me becoming a wrestler. Not so much the moves themselves, but the concepts behind the moves: trying to be innovative and just being exciting.
I live by myself, so I derive a lot of joy from being with my friends and their families.
I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.
Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.
You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.
Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.
My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.
I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up...
My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.
Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may...
