To Be Quotes
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Please, please be some sex-starved nutcase who wants to kidnap me and make me your love slave, I begged silently.
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That’s part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you’re trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.
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When we are eager to be shy and humble about our accomplishments, we lose confidence in our abilities.
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“I will be your friend,' I said. 'I will go home to my mother's house the way I did when I skinned my knees as a little girl. I'll go and let myself be consoled by my roses, my palm trees, my enormous volcanoes in San Salvador. When you are old, maybe you'll come and see me someday.
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We watch a sunlight dust dance, and we try to be that lively, but nobody knows what music those particles hear. Each of us has a secret companion musician to dance to. Unique rhythmic play, a motion in the street we alone know and hear.
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People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings And free your soul of jealousy, You and everyone around you Would fly up like doves.
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A lot of people don't know what it's like to actually be hungry. I do. I've also slept on the streets.
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Before being free, it is necessary to be just.
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I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.
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He's completely correct, for as with music, as with movies, and as with a wide variety of human phenomena: a flaw is a powerful thing. Even at the person-to-person level, to be universally liked is to be relatively ignored. To be disliked by some is to be loved all the more by others.
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But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.
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I said: I could be a wolf for you. I could put my teeth on your throat. I could growl. I could eat you whole. I could wait for you in the dark. I could howl against your hair.
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I think it is important that we should be on the side of keeping borders open with respect to trade and movement of factors of production.
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It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them…
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What I am I wished to be, and what I wished to be I am.
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Everything except the freedom to be what she wanted to be - whatever that was. She had to break away. Whether he liked it or not. She had to.
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To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly.
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We have to become the people we always should have been.
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To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
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We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.
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Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond
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I've always been a fan of the band setting. I've always been a believer in bands, and I've always been in bands. That's where my comfort zone is. So to stand outside of that, that was never my intention or goal. I never had the dream of, 'I'm gonna go into all these bands as a spring board for my solo work.' But life takes you on different journeys sometimes. I ended up playing a bunch of songs and some of them I really liked.
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I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.
