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Being Quotes
"Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets."
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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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"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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"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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"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
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"I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily."
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"Manuel Rosales is being unjustly persecuted. He won't return to Venezuela under these circumstances, because Peru will never expel him."
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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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"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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"The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness."
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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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"A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on."
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"Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more."
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"Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself."
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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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"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect."
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"Being faithful in that which is another man's qualifies us to receive our own."
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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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"Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired."
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"Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being."
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"It's not just being called to the ministry that counts."
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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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"Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security."
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"The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being."
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"So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"
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"Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon."
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"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag."
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"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."
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"I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars."
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"I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened."
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"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."
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"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."
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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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"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision."
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"I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are."
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"We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial."
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"Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself."
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"To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object."
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