To Be Quotes
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Ideology claims to be binding for the whole society. This development leads to typical problems. As the complexity of society increases, so do the demands upon ideology as a schema for solving problems; in particular, there occurs an unsurveyable increase in the interdependencies among the individual components of an ideology, whose consistency must continue to be maintained. Changes, accommodations, and renovations in an ideology become markedly dífficult, because every small step can have unforeseeable repercussions upon the premises appealed to. The burdens upon the reflexive and opportunistic mechanisms anchored in ideology then become excessive.
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It’s the most marvelous and terrible thing in the world. Everyone, but everyone, is pretending to be someone else.
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“Jessica," he said gravely. "I will be your champion, if you let me. If I have to take on the role of knight, I want to be yours. Let me be your protector.
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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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I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.
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I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone.
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We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.
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Animation is so much work! I don't know if I have the skills to really hack that. Maybe as storyboard artist or something like that. But you have to go to school to be an animator. I can't just pop behind the animator's table and be like, "Here I am."
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I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding.
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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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There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.
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The change starts within each one of us. And ends only when all children are free to be children.
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They’ve seen too much to be children.
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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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And one day our grandkids will ask us, 'What was it like to be a minority?'
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It is better to be too honest to be polite than to be too polite to be honest!
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I am honored and humbled to be nominated by the President to lead the FBI, the premier law enforcement organization in the world.
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Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
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At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.
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Be a fridge, be a very fridge...
