Being Quotes
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Being the oldest sometimes meant being everyone's boss, but mostly, it meant being everyone's pack mule.
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Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
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Conflicts of interest' arise when you're not - when you're sneaky about it, when you're shady about it, when you're not transparent about it. If you tell everyone, 'Here's what's going on. Here's the process; here are the people that are playing a role' - that's being transparent.
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But the incredible thing for me in this moment was to see both these masks, of one and the same Being, melt inseparably into each other. Because here for the first time an agonising conflict resolved itself, which I, great-grandson of an idealistic, grandson of a romantic, and son of a materialistic race, had hitherto regarded as irreconcilable. It didn’t exactly happen that an Either-Or metamorphosed into an As-Well-As. No, the real is just as fantastical as the fantastical is real. That was the wonderful thing which delighted us about the doubled images we observed through the stereoscope as children: In the same moment in which they melted together into a single picture, the new dimension of depth burst out from them.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.
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I believe in being an innovator.
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Practitioners of SI do not feel ourselves to be therapists. The gravitational field is the therapist. What we do is prepare the body to receive the support from the gravitational field which gives a greater sense of well being.
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One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.
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Never does the Tanakh suggest that our being a people means that only we have a right to an ancestral homeland and that other people don't.
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Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
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I'm not sure I'm going to be that type of artist but I do love cultural icons. Like Solange has been really great at that. Releasing her album end of last year and being really strong in their sound, bands like Little Dragon, artists like James Blake. You know their music when you hear them. They have a really particular sound and it's really cultural and people copy that sound. You hear it in other songs and you're like 'That's a James Blake tune'.
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Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.
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Being frightened is not the same as being a coward. Maybe he was as brave as anyone else there, because he went to catch a dragon despite knowing what dragons are like.
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Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different.
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I don't like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!
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If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.
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An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.
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Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.
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Maybe it's just me being lazy but I just don't like describing my music or style or anything, I just like letting people interpret it.
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I'd gone through life being obsessed about my sexuality. People would ask about relationships, girlfriends, you start referring to people as 'they' so there's no judgment and you can be ambiguous. People around me knew, but I still struggled with talking about it openly.
