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Being Quotes
"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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"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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"I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries."
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"Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being."
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"This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it."
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"But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul."
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"I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country."
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"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."
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"I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts."
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"I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians."
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"The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer."
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"Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack."
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"Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?"
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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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"We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being."
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"Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl."
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"I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight."
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"All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake."
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"I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles."
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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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"The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others."
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"There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare."
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"There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something."
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"Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst."
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"Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration."
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"I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians."
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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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"I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd."
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"Not that being so mature is a bad thing, but there are times to be mature and there are times to be loose."
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