"Who, being loved, is poor?"

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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store."

Joycelyn Elders, American Physician

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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat."

Robert Jay Lifton, American Psychologist

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"It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark."

Calamity Jane, American Soldier

Being, Quick, Reputation

"I'll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day."

Brande Roderick, American Model

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"Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being."

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss Author

Being, World

"One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned."

Tim Curry, British Actor

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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

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"Something was dead in each of us,and what was dead was hope."

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"It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him."

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"A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent."

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"And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation."

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"Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself."

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"Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices."

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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

"Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create."

"You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store."

"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

"The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat."

"It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark."

"I'll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day."

"Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being."

"One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned."

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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

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"Something was dead in each of us,and what was dead was hope."

"A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure."

"It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him."

"A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent."

"And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation."

"Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself."

"Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices."