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Being Quotes
"I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important."
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"The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality."
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"We're going to see fugitives and felons, eventually, being able to get guns much more easily."
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"Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril."
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"We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available."
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"Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it."
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"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
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"Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali."
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"Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies."
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"I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am."
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"If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not."
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"If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem."
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"Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore."
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"Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on."
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"I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it."
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"I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments."
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"I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other."
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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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"When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there."
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"It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video."
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"Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had."
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"The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful."
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"The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis."
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"Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections."
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"You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.'"
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"If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty."
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"To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably."
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"Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great."
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"We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either."
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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 don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures."
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"Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance."
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