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"I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it."
Simon Cowell
"I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it."
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"Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being."
Thomas Carlyle
"Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being."
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"I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter."
Billy Joel
"I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter."
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"Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling."
Heston Blumenthal
"Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling."
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"On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film."
Avi Arad
"On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film."
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"I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing."
Chantal Kreviazuk
"I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing."
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"The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely."
Buffalo Bill
"The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely."
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"Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference."
Tom Watson
"Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference."
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"I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them."
Robert Anton Wilson
"I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them."
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"I'm a sample of Jesus. I'm a super being."
Benny Hinn
"I'm a sample of Jesus. I'm a super being."
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"Kids think of us as being totally over the hill."
Thurston Moore
"Kids think of us as being totally over the hill."
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"The greatest gift is not being afraid to question."
Ruby Dee
"The greatest gift is not being afraid to question."
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"Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures."
Ron Taffel
"Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures."
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"Being offended is part of being in the real world."
Courtney Love
"Being offended is part of being in the real world."
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"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."
Gerald Brenan
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."
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"Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being."
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"I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice."
Lara Flynn Boyle
"I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice."
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"There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all."
Gore Vidal
"There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all."
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"Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies."
Mort Kondracke
"Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies."
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"The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk."
Aristotle
"The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk."
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"Being a novelty had its advantages."
Jessica Savitch
"Being a novelty had its advantages."
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"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."
Jacques Derrida
"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."
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"I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else."
Steve Albini
"I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else."
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"It's kind of a shame that it's even an issue. Not being gay, I can't fully appreciate how complicated that is. In the article, the interviewer asked me, and I said that if I were, I would just say it."
Scott Wolf
"It's kind of a shame that it's even an issue. Not being gay, I can't fully appreciate how complicated that is. In the article, the interviewer asked me, and I said that if I were, I would just say it."
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"Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels."
Dennis Miller
"Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels."
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"When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me."
Shane West
"When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me."
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"Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?"
Verne Troyer
"Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?"
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"Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you."
John Dykstra
"Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you."
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"I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!"
David Prowse
"I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!"
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"In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back."
James Longstreet
"In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back."
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"It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy."
Lucille Ball
"It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy."
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"I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage."
Patton Oswalt
"I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage."
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"I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don't know yet."
Shaquille O'Neal
"I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don't know yet."
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"It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form."
Jerome K. Jerome
"It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form."
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"The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano."
Warren Zevon
"The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano."
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"In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune."
Taylor Caldwell
"In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune."
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"I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going."
Richard Branson
"I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going."
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"What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?"
John Dos Passos
"What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?"
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"When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!"
David Blunkett
"When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!"
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"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."
Jackie Robinson
"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."
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"With the film around for 25 years and the show being around even longer - still running and continuing to fill house all around the word - it's really an exciting and wonderful thing to be part of that."
Richard O'Brien
"With the film around for 25 years and the show being around even longer - still running and continuing to fill house all around the word - it's really an exciting and wonderful thing to be part of that."
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"To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably."
Vincent D'Onofrio
"To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably."
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"Try being my size and going into a public restroom."
Billy Barty
"Try being my size and going into a public restroom."
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"A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him."
Karl Philipp Moritz
"A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him."
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"We'll look at a bunch of deals that are being offered to us, and we decide where to go and continue on I guess. It's not too early to start considering our options with other labels."
Josh Silver
"We'll look at a bunch of deals that are being offered to us, and we decide where to go and continue on I guess. It's not too early to start considering our options with other labels."
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"Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."
M. Kathleen Casey
"Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."
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"I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect."
Brian McKnight
"I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect."
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"There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably multiple reasons. Certainly proliferation is a hard thing to track, particularly in countries that deny easy and free access and don't have free and open societies."
David Kay
"There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably multiple reasons. Certainly proliferation is a hard thing to track, particularly in countries that deny easy and free access and don't have free and open societies."
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"I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent."
Victoria Principal
"I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent."
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"I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big."
Sting
"I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big."
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