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It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

Thom Gunn

Time

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.

I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.

The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.

The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.

Judith Guest

Friend

Being

I'm proud of being Hispanic.

Lisa Guerrero

Being

Being attractive and being credible can and do go together.

Lisa Guerrero

Being

There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.

Justin Guarini

Assertiveness

Being

I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.

George Grosz

Being

Talk

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

Stanislav Grof

Being

Existence

It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.