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Being Quotes
"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."
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"The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness."
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"I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic."
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"Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone."
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"Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin."
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"Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus."
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"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical."
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"When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show."
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"It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late."
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"I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily."
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"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."
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"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
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"He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter."
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"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose."
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"So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"
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"Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets."
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"Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself."
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"No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person."
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"But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful."
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"It's not just being called to the ministry that counts."
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"Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common."
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"The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being."
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"Being faithful in that which is another man's qualifies us to receive our own."
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"Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more."
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"Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon."
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"Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female."
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"I can remember crying on the set of Beverly Hills 90210 after being released from the show a few years ago."
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"Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired."
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"We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids."
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"He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers."
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"If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?"
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"Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being."
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"The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory."
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"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag."
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"This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine."
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"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision."
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