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Being Quotes
"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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"Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool."
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"'m thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day."
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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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"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 am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky."
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"I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider."
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"Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out."
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"I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'"
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"It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself."
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"We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost."
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"I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker."
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"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."
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"I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic."
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"The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings."
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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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"It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand."
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"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
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"I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat."
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"He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free."
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"Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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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"For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important."
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"Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore."
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"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks."
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"The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know."
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