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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet."
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"I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead."
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"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
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"I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl."
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"Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions."
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"Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy."
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"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
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"The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing."
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"It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son."
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"What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?"
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"Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
Commonsense

"This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition."
History

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not."
Science

"Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation."
Religion

"Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal."
Time

"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."
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"Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens."
Woman

"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."
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