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Being Quotes
"The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental."
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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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"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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"So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones."
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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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"Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting."
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"We heard later through the grapevine that we were being compared to the Furious 5, and because of that we were getting feedback that they were saying that we werent all that, that we were copying them... blah blah blah."
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"For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him."
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"Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes."
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"Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses."
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"So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again."
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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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"Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena."
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"Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman."
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"This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion."
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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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"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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"There's no way to eloquently put this. I just can't go to the mall. It bothers me that I can't be outside very often. And also to not ever be just 'some girl' again. Just being some chick at some place, that's gone."
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"I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'"
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"You know what you are getting into, but being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy."
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"I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon."
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"If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being."
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"But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House."
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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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"The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close."
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"Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact."
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"Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances."
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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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"Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path."
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"I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing."
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"You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills."
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"Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures."
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