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Being Quotes


"Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?"


"Taylor being married and so on, that does evolve the dynamic on the road."


"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."


"You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, "Am I having fun?""


"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be."


"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."



"I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl."


"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."


"Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter."


"Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that."



"A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made."



"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."



"There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable."


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



"I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants."


"First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that."


"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."


"For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him."



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



"Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy."


"I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general."


"The best part about being with a group is that you don't have to do everything alone. You're with your friends."


"And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted."


"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."


"There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen."


"Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded."


"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."



"We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority."


"I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see."


"It's not being marketed as a gay show by a gay person. It's just Ellen DeGeneres."



"Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight."


"Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man."
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