Being Quotes
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Being a Christian doesn't mean I don't get stressed or upset when training doesn't go well. But even if I have those reactions, I think, 'I should pray about this.'
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We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.
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When you know about something it stops being a nightmare. When you know how to fight something, it stops being so threatening.
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The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible.
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I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.
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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
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Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.
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Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.
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Boozing does not necessarily have to go hand in hand with being a writer. . .I therefore solemnly declare to all young men trying to become writers that they do not actually have to become drunkards first.
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The stigma of being an unmarried mother was something we can't comprehend today. It was not uncommon that you'd go off somewhere to have your child, then give it up for adoption.
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Forever will be you and me.
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For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.
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Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.
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If we nurture the dreams of children, the world will be blessed. If we destroy them, the world is doomed!
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The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in.
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If you're being true to who you are, and the things you believe in, that is so attractive to me.
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I've never apologized for being a woman, for being gay, for being kind of butch, masculine of center. I am into it. Like, I like who I am, i think sometimes that has been challenging for folks.
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I'd be lying if I did not say that being a woman of colour is something I am always mindful or aware of.
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Being a dramatic character was more difficult for me. It was a new thing that I explored because it was challenging. But I love to challenge myself and different things.
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Practice. Listen. Use you ears. And as Rob Halford said, that team effort. You can learn your instrument in your room, but being in a band is more than playing your instrument.
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I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.
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Being busy does not always mean real work.
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We think about project's public nature and how that can be enhanced, how the spaces we create can enliven the experience of being there.
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Prior to being a Canadian, I'm also Middle Eastern.
