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Being Quotes
"I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff."
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"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah."
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"The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore."
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"Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression."
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"Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion."
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"Actually, I don't really like being confused with my image."
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"The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated."
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"For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against."
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"When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said."
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"I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign."
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"I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could."
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"I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors."
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"Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director."
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"I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face."
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"I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things."
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"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive."
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"If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar."
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"Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out."
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"Our pat-down approach is very similar to what is being utilized in Europe and, as we know, around the world. It's even much more thorough in other parts of the world."
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"I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms."
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"The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media."
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"Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing."
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"Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me."
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"Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being."
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"I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being."
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"Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions."
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"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is."
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"The press always ends up being much nicer than I expect. A lot of times they say something snarky about you, but then you meet them in person and they couldn't be nicer."
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"Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing."
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"Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."
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