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Being Quotes
"I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person."
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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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"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 every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy."
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"No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable."
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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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"And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation."
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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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"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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"So I like that sound, but I am not interested in being retro."
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"It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility."
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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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"I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things."
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"I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no."
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"Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon."
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"I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption."
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"Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome."
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"They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up."
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"We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost."
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"Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys."
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"I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain."
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"I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset."
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"I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic."
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"But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older."
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"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being."
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"A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious."
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"First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete."
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"The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man."
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"Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides."
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"But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end."
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