To Be Quotes
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It's an honor and privilege to be next to the great mysteries, and that's what I get to do every day. Why are we here? How beautiful the Earth is. Whatever it is, large and small. There's so much that's beautiful and moving and sad, to experience that and find shapes for it, to deeply enter that meditative space. There's nothing like it. Everything else seems so pale.
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I think you have to be grateful to those who have helped you.
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We’ll start with the assumption that we all want to be effective, both within the organization and within ourselves. And let’s define effective as creating the results we want long-term and with sustainability. To be effective, we need to be clear about our mission, vision, and values.
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Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.
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To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.
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In order to be better, you should expect to be better.
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What one remembers is, I think, a clue to what one wants to be.
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If you want to be an artist, you have to know that art is an ongoing practice, that you're part of a long line. Take this test: if someone offered you a billion dollars, but you could never draw another illustration or write another word, would you take it? If you reject it, you need to find another way to pay the bills, but you're still an artist.
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When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged.
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Even though I smoke, just because I'm a dumbass doesn't mean anyone else has to be.
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Always be in the process of making a beautiful life.
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Hold yourself on your own. A man's job in a romantic dynamic is not to be your butler, bank account or your father.
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Never say that your life is to be a singer. You want to sing because it's a part of your life. But if you don't succeed as a singer, it doesn't mean you don't have a life and it's over.
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I don't like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy.
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When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.
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[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.
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He loved but he did not know how to be loved.
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In order to go anywhere it is necessary to be where one is.
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The better we get, the better we want to be.
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At some point, you just have to choose. And then be brave enough to stand up to the people who think you made the wrong choice.
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Wherever you stand, be the Soul of that place.
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Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad.
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I have plenty of places to go, but no place to be.
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You want to be the one that people piclk up the paper in the morning to see what you say.
