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Being Quotes
"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."
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"Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being."
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"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."
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"Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being."
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"Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself."
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"Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left."
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"Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week."
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"Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation."
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"What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?"
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"That's what I've been always saying, that I was always using the mixed doubles especially to improve my net game and being able to return a guy's serve, 'cause then when you play someone like Serena, you are little bit more prepared for that."
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"This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today."
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"Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy."
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"Now being upon the haunches (as he necessarily must be in this case) is it impossible but he must be light in hand, because no horse can be rightly upon his haunches without being so."
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"What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied."
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"A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was."
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"The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels."
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"It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence."
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"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."
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"I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in."
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"I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic."
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"You know, I grew up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl."
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"Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union."
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"Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being."
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"Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone."
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"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."
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"When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show."
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"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
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