Being There Quotes - Page 3

• New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature of being there.

  Hunter Parrish

  New York, Character, Film

  "Exclusive: Hunter Parrish Talks WEEDS Season 7". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 27, 2011.

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• I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

  Janis Ian

  Years, Enough, Lost

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• Most remember the groundbreaking first in sports; few remember the third or fourth to follow in those tracks. That's not downplaying anyone's achievements but rather recognizing that there comes a time when simply being there is no longer good enough for the record books.

  LZ Granderson

  Sports, Book, Track

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• Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value to judging yourself for

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Tired, Judging Yourself, Sick

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• Being a fan doesn't mean being there from the start...
  It means being there till the end.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Mean, Fans, Till The End

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• The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political and economic establishments that exalt the human community while offering no protection to the non-human modes of being. There is an urgent need for a Jurisprudence (system of governance) that recognizes that the well-being of the integral world community is primary, and that human well-being is derivative - an Earth Jurisprudence.

  Thomas Berry

  Offering, Community, Political

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• I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about this word aware, which on the page looks like "aware," which speaks to both the pain and the beauty of our lives. Being there, what I perceived was that this is a sorrow that is not a grief that one forgets or recovers from, but it is a burning, searing illumination of love for the delicacy and strength of our relations.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Pain, Grief, Illumination

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.

  Ben Stiller

  New York, Growing Up, Fun

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• Evolution created a violent order where beings eat other beings. Till we change this order and create a harmony between all beings, there shall be no real peace on Earth.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Change, Peace, Real

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• Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Men, Race

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.429, Harvard University Press

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• What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all
  eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.

  Samuel Beckett

  Should Have, Giving, Joy

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.332, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

  Laura Riding

  Truth, Writing, Ifs

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• Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring. ... It's the next best thing to being there.

  Ellyn Stern

  Caring, Guilt, Next

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• In our young minds houses belonged to women were their special domain, not as property, but as places where all that truly mattered in life took place - the warmth and comfort of shelter, the feeding of our bodies, the nurturing of our souls. There we learned dignity, integrity of being; there we learned to have faith. The folks who made this life possible, who were our primary guides and teachers, were black women.

  Bell Hooks

  Teacher, Women, Integrity

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.55, Routledge

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• Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.

  Laozi

  Life, Spiritual, Distinction

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Nothing can be plainer, than that the motions, changes, decays, and dissolutions, which we hourly see befall natural bodies (and which is what we mean by the course of nature), cannot possibly affect an active, simple, uncompounded substance: such a being therefore is indissoluble by the force of nature, that is to say, the soul of man is naturally immortal.

  George Berkeley

  Nature, Mean, Simple

  George Berkeley (2015). “A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge”, p.82, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Growing up I didn't want to be an actor. I sort of didn't want to go into the family business; the main reason being there was something I wanted to do far more, which was be an artist.

  John Lithgow

  Growing Up, Artist, Actors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea of climbing into an aircraft, and burning up huge quantities of fossil fuels to propel our bodies and briefcases full of papers, will seem absolutely backward.

  Burt Rutan

  Reality, Years, Ideas

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• When I did TV, I only did little guest parts, and it hasn't been that long. There is a kind of pressure in this job that comes from your work every day being there forever. But this is all part of the brand-new world that I'm discovering.

  Emma Stone

  Jobs, Long, Forever

  Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2012.

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• My parents' deportation gave me so much strength to keep on moving forward, because any type of failure - whether in school or with jobs or rejection from a casting office - nothing could be as bad as what I had already gone through. Nothing could be worse than coming home expecting to see your loving parents and them not being there.

  Diane Guerrero

  Moving, Home, School

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Why talk of the team when our Cricket Board is like an exclusive club with members being there for years on end? If they can stay on without performing, the players too feel they can stay in the team without too big a performance.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Motivational, Team, Player

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• Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.

  Will Hobbs

  Writing, Character, Magic

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• I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part of this. I felt responsible but also connected and empathetic. It was a very complicated relationship we had, whichever side you were on. The shock of being there was very few people my own age - I was primarily in the North in the streets of Hanoi. A whole generation was essentially decimated.

  Anne Waldman

  People, Age, Complicated Relationship

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• Every day I look for ways to be inspired, to learn and to grow. And trying to be the best for my kids, my husband and my family. One thing I really wanna do is being there for my kids, be part of my siblings and my parents.

  Mia Hamm

  Husband, Sibling, Kids

  "Discover A Real Mia Hamm: A Soccer Legend, An Advocate…". Celebrate Woman Today Interview, celebratewomantoday.com.

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• I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing - "magnificent desolation." Magnificent for the achievement of being there, and desolate for the eons of lifelessness.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Moon, Achievement

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