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 was probably a little bit overweight as a child, being passionate about baked beans on toast and Cadbury's milk chocolate when I could get it.
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It's no good being talented and not being in the right place at the right time.
A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.
I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room by a lamp is being lit by that lamp.
People who are seriously damaged by sudden fame and notoriety have, in my experience, very low esteem at the root of their being.
Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.
You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.
You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.
The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.
It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.
I do not like the way oppressed Filipinos are being treated now. They are oppressed and have no one to turn to.
Too many companies are just being big for the sheer sake of it. Too many CEOs thinking bigger is better.
While being the husband of uberstylist Rachel Zoe lets me waltz confidently into fashion shows with Rachel by my side, the VIP treatment usually stops there.
With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers - not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It...
I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things.
I don't make music for the radio. And when I was being played on the radio a lot, I didn't.
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
