To Be Quotes
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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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I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.
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The ground is not as solid as I would like it to be.
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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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Everybody just wants it to be more open. I have noting against Ted.
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The real moral here is: be yourself and be brave about it. Certainly trying to fit in, just for its own sake, is counterproductive.
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To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly.
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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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I think you have to remember to do things for the right reason. Do the right thing, so you can be happy with all your decisions and happy with how spent time in the world.
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Be genuinely grateful for the success of others. A generous spirit is the surest sign of a kind heart.
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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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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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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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Once in a while it can be a bit disconcerting to be so recognisable.
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We would all rather be loved for what we seem to be.
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I want to be around for a long time, I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I hope I'll be 50 years old and still making music.
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To be strong - that's the first thing the man must learn. If you don't have strength, others can take you everything you have or make
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All we ever wanna do is inspire somebody to be who they wanna be and to give them a little bit of hope.
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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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It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.
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It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.
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Success is about persistence. You can only afford to be persistent in something you deeply enjoy.
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I know it's going to be just magical, and almost certainly going to be over quickly - on playing Sharapova.
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Things haven't always been this bad, therefore they won't always be this bad.
