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"Man is an imagining being."
Gaston Bachelard
"Man is an imagining being."
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"Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved."
Jean Savarin
"Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved."
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"There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while."
Tom Hanks
"There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while."
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"The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves."
Herbert Read
"The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves."
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"I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic."
Carrie Fisher
"I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic."
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"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."
Hans Urs von Balthasar
"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."
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"Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year."
Anthony Michael Hall
"Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year."
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"There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out."
John Maynard Keynes
"There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out."
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"I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners."
Evelyn Waugh
"I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners."
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"The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it."
James Newman
"The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it."
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"If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves."
Jupiter Hammon
"If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves."
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"I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being."
Sidney Poitier
"I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being."
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"Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon."
Brian Eno
"Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon."
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"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."
Christopher Eccleston
"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."
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"The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same."
Julie Andrews
"The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same."
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"Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living."
George Lincoln Rockwell
"Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living."
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"I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage."
Dirk Benedict
"I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage."
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"It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end."
Rudy Rucker
"It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end."
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"I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds."
Quentin Crisp
"I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds."
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"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."
Brooke Shields
"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."
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"Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal."
Rupert Grint
"Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal."
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"A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it."
Maggie Gyllenhaal
"A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it."
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"I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy."
Vivienne Westwood
"I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy."
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"I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun."
Katharine Hepburn
"I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun."
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"There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you."
Helen Reddy
"There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you."
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"We all have faults, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber
"We all have faults, and mine is being wicked."
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"The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft."
Steve Kanaly
"The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft."
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"There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen."
Christopher Morley
"There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen."
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"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite."
Jean Kerr
"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite."
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"Being in the limelight has its minuses."
Jon Postel
"Being in the limelight has its minuses."
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"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."
Jennifer Lopez
"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."
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"And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage."
John Zorn
"And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage."
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"I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group."
Julie Walters
"I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group."
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"No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me."
Shirley Manson
"No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me."
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"Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end."
Iris Murdoch
"Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end."
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"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."
Conrad Hall
"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."
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"I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is."
Bea Arthur
"I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is."
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"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."
Al Franken
"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."
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"There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed."
Jock Sturges
"There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed."
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"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."
Emma Goldman
"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."
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"Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet."
Rita Dove
"Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet."
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"No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat."
Lawrence Durrell
"No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat."
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"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."
Sherman Austin
"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."
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"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."
Bill Sienkiewicz
"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."
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"I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top."
Harrison Ford
"I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top."
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"Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'"
Colin Powell
"Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'"
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"I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid."
Patrick Stewart
"I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid."
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"I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them."
Tommy Douglas
"I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them."
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"TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue."
John Poindexter
"TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue."
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"The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained."
Chuck Mangione
"The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained."
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