Quotes with being

Quotes 81 till 100 of 1877.

  • Barbara Sher ''Doing your own thing'' is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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  • Ben Lovett 'I Just Might Pray' by The David Mayfield Parade has an upbeat tempo without being sugary sweet. 'I Just Might Pray' is an enjoyable track and is easily listened to. As a side note, the video for 'I Just Might Pray' is absolutely adorable.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Betty Ford ... a woman... told us she was forever getting herself into trouble. But I just keep coming back, she said. I just keep showing up for my life. Showing up for life. Being blessed with the rebirth that recovery brings.
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Christopher Morley : One of the odd things about being in a hurry is that it seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Anthony Holden A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bobby Darin A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Simone Weil A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Julie Burchill A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Billy Campbell A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Christopher Hampton A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Ansel Adams A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Barry Mann A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Eileen Caddy A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Barbra Streisand A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Bill Kurtis A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Charles Dickens A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper - a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Susan Sontag A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of ''spirit'' over matter.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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