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"Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures."

"Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures."

Ron Taffel, American Psychologist

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"This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it."

"This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it."

Isaac Mizrahi, American Designer

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"I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country."

"I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country."

John Engler, American Politician

Being, Country, Now

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"We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available."

"We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available."

Ethel Waters, American Musician

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

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

Moliere, French Playwright

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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."

"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."

John Conyers, American Politician

Being, Meetings, Now, Senate

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"Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right."

"Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right."

Ted Kulongoski, American Politician

Being, Debate, Right

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"There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all."

"There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all."

Gore Vidal, American Novelist

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"Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody."

"Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody."

Elle Macpherson, Australian Model

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"I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else."

"I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else."

Steve Albini, American Musician

Being, Delusion, Job

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"Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later."

"Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later."

Sammy Hagar, American Musician

Being, Question, Trying, Years

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"In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it."

"In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it."

Robert Gould Shaw, American Soldier

Being, May, Right, Theory

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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."

"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."

Paul Tillich, German Theologian

Being, Glory, Language, Loneliness

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"Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is."

"Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is."

John Engler, American Politician

Being, School, Schools, State

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"But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely."

"But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely."

Allen Weinstein, American Public Servant

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"I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along."

"I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along."

Elizabeth Moon, American Author

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"I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles."

"I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles."

Beth Henley, American Playwright

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"The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others."

"The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others."

Doug Larson, American Cartoonist

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"Man is an imagining being."

"Man is an imagining being."

Gaston Bachelard, French Philosopher

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"I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect."

"I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect."

Sandra Cisneros, American Author

Being, Now, Opinion, Respect

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"So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix."

Sebastian Bach, Canadian Musician

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"The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good."

"The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good."

John Foster Dulles, American Public Servant

Being, Nations, United

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"What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?"

"What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?"

John Dos Passos, American Novelist

Being, Man, Wrong

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"I do remember being in high school and trying to go to an Outlaws concert, but I was too drunk and ended up in trouble with the police at some truck stop on 95 in Connecticut."

"I do remember being in high school and trying to go to an Outlaws concert, but I was too drunk and ended up in trouble with the police at some truck stop on 95 in Connecticut."

Jim Coleman, American Actor

Being, Police, School, Trouble

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"There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while."

"There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while."

Tom Hanks, American Actor

Being, Difference, Loneliness, Solitude

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"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."

"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."

George Will, American Journalist

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"Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony."

"Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony."

Blake Edwards, American Director

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"If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris."

"If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris."

Keren Ann, Israeli Musician

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"I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished."

"I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished."

Daniel Day Lewis, British Actor

Being, Film, World

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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."

"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."

James Welch, American Author

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"A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him."

"A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him."

Karl Philipp Moritz, German Author

Being, Country, Man

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"Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."

"Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."

M. Kathleen Casey, American Judge

Being, Burden, May

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"I fantasized being a broadcaster."

"I fantasized being a broadcaster."

Larry King, American Entertainer

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"Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us."

"Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us."

Theodor Herzl, Hungarian Journalist

Being, Country, Hate, Humanity

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"Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown."

"Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown."

Althea Gibson, American Athlete

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"Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up."

"Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up."

Edgar Watson Howe, American Editor

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"I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures."

"I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures."

Charles Kuralt, American Journalist

Being, Reputation

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"With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents."

"With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents."

Omar N. Bradley, American Soldier

Being, Danger, Humanity, Weapons

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"I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him."

"I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him."

John Thaw, British Actor

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"When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable."

"When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable."

Martin Heidegger, German Philosopher

Being, Formula, Physics, World

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

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

Gwen Stefani, American Musician

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"The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it."

"The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it."

Harold Ford, American Politician

Being, Bureaucracy

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"It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings."

"It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings."

Wim Wenders, German Director

Being, Concern, Today, Will

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"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today."

"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today."

Herman Wouk, American Novelist

Being, Fiction, Tax, Income

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"I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight."

"I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight."

Rainn Wilson, American Actor

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"Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them."

"Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them."

Phil Silvers, American Actor

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"Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long."

"Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long."

Gary Cole, American Actor

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

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

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

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"But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man."

"But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man."

Hugh Grant, English Actor

Being, Celebrity, Disappointments, Man

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"I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50."

"I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50."

Sammy Davis, Jr., American Entertainer

Being, Hate, Sammy Davis, Jr.

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