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Being Quotes
"You know what you are getting into, but being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy."
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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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"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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"Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape."
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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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"I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning."
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"I have a bad reputation for being temperamental."
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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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"Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing."
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"Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms."
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"Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."
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"I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person."
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"I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really."
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"Being attractive and being credible can and do go together."
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"I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible."
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"Clients do not expect the infrastructure to be any less reliable just because the service is being delivered from an offshore location; thus, the uptime requirements justify the expense."
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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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"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better."
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"Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero."
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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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"He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later."
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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 a reporter seems a ticket out to the world."
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"Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard."
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"Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us."
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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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"I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff."
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"Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing."
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"Actually, I don't really like being confused with my image."
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