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Being Quotes



"Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore."


"I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered."



"Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh."


"I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them."


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



"Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?"



"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."


"Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago."


"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."


"Yes, I mean, There's nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but there's also nothing like the thrill you get being in the same space with that audience right there and then. And when you do it, it's over."


"Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can."



"If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400."


"There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something."



"But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all."


"The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases."



"Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard."


"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."



"We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there."


"I don't like characters that are left being jerks at the end of the movie."


"The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it."


"I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress."


"Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them."


"I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really."


"The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same."



"By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West."


"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."



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