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Being Quotes
"So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix."
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"If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400."
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"I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing."
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"Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony."
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"McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales."
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"It's the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it."
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"It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side."
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"Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up."
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"I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative."
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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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"To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well."
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"I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed."
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"I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood."
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"I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing."
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"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."
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"I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings."
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"After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories."
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"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."
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"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
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"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
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"I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own."
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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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"Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being."
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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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"Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them."
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"All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals."
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"To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction."
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"The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood."
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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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"When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in."
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"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being."
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"Our pat-down approach is very similar to what is being utilized in Europe and, as we know, around the world. It's even much more thorough in other parts of the world."
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"The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close."
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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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"I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms."
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"Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing."
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