To Be Quotes
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Sometimes we get to be the sunshine on someone's cloudy day.
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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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Don’t try to fit in, you will be unhappy when you try to be something you are not.
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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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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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We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.
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And one day our grandkids will ask us, 'What was it like to be a minority?'
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The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.
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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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What I am I wished to be, and what I wished to be I am.
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There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.
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When I finally let go of the thought that I had to please everyone is when I became free to be myself.
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Peace is not enough, they must also be content.
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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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I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.
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For the parents, it is a way to be young physically and emotionally for awhile and not have to deal with the troubles of the world.
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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’d prefer to see both knees on the ground. I mean, if you’re going to grovel, be the best groveler you can, right?
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I've been lucky enough to be in this amazing band, and to me, a band is really a collaborative unit, and that's definitely been what Sonic Youth has been.
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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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Success is about persistence. You can only afford to be persistent in something you deeply enjoy.
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One thing is plain in my old age. If you construct a human society in which one individual wields an enormous concentration of power, a high proportion of those who come to be that office bearer will be narcissist psychopaths. Because no-one else is so driven to acquire power.
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Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
