Being Quotes
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My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic.
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I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.
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I really loved being able to perform my songs and sing them myself.
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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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I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound.
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Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.
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The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
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Anyone that says the housing crisis can be resolved with one magic bullet or by the next election isn't being honest.
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Being the hot girl... you wouldn't want that. It's overrated. Being sexy is actually really boring to me. I'd rather be... I'd rather be interesting.
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You need to learn to say no and need to recognise when you're being exploited.
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It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other.
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Not a perfect soul, I am perfecting. Not a human being, I am a human becoming.
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There is little difference in being lost and exploring.
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Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.
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The awful thing about being fat is you can't get away from it. Everywhere you go, there it is; all round you; hanging and swinging, yards and yards of it, under your arms, everywhere. And everyone else is so thin.
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September had no natural defense against lost things, being one herself.
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That as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
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Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.
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We're so lucky to take being alive for granted.
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Being an artist is being an isolated individual.
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I would urge you to give priority to the search for God. Allow his spirit to permeate your being. ... If you do not have a deep and patient faith in God, you will be powerless to face the delays, disappointments, and vicissitudes that inevitably come.
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Because being CEO can feel lonely, I journal religiously as a way to express my thoughts, feelings and aspirations. Looking back at earlier entries helps me reflect on challenges and celebrate progress and successes.
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Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one’s life.
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Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I'd think I was someone special.
