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Being Quotes
"Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy."
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"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."
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"One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism."
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"It's great being blonde - with such low expectations it's easy to impress."
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"The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists."
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"When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television."
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"I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake."
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"Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly."
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"I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else."
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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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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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"Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances."
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"I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian."
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"Being in touch with the natural world is crucial."
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"Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch."
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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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"Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore."
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"Having a great intellect is no path to being happy."
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"Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn't there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya, for being a Catholic priest. Isn't that interesting? Everybody else made the reunion but that guy."
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"I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all."
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"You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them."
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"But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely."
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"I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing."
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"Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone."
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"Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold."
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"I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill."
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"So I like that sound, but I am not interested in being retro."
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"I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest."
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"Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting."
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"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."
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"I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight."
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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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"Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them."
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"I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!"
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"We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects."
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