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Being Quotes



"I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself."


"It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility."


"Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for halloween everyday."


"When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were no two finer guitar players in the world that I'd rather play with."


"Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count."


"I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be."



"Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to."


"Once the Mass is restored to its rightful place, we will again see choirs being developed."



"Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses."


"You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off."


"Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman."


"I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for."


"Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director."


"I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before."


"But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan."



"Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times."


"They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up."


"This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being."


"I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall."


"Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it."


"Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films."



"But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House."


"If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar."


"And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important."


"Over the course of two terms, President Reagan revolutionized the Republican Party and changed the political atmosphere in a way still being felt today."


"First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete."


"Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path."


"The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist."


"But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that."


"Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep."


"I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being."



"Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril."



"Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions."


"I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence."


"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy."


"I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper."


"No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution."


"I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections."
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