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Being Quotes



"There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while."


"The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being."


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


"If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves."



"I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being."


"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."


"The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined."


"There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you."


"The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft."


"There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen."


"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite."


"I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown."


"I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group."


"Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end."


"But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being."


"I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is."


"Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that."


"There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed."


"Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free."


"No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat."


"About five, six FBI agents walked into the courthouse and arrested me. They said I was being arrested for distribution of information related to explosives over the Internet."


"Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident."


"I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top."


"TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue."
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