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Being Quotes
"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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"He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter."
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"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical."
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"I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan."
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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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"Being faithful in that which is another man's qualifies us to receive our own."
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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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"Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself."
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"Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus."
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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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"Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female."
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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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"Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired."
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"The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being."
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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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"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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"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."
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"Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being."
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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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"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."
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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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"The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies."
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"Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more."
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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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"The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness."
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"Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon."
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"A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique."
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"It's not just being called to the ministry that counts."
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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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"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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"Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead."
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"I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible."
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"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."
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"You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed."
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"No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one."
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"I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that."
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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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"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."
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