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Being Quotes


"I call it like I see it. I don't hold back when it comes to being candid on the hot issues."


"He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later."


"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."


"Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely."


"Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that."


"Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess."


"I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it."



"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters."


"Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented."


"I wrapped "Buffy" and I always felt on "Buffy" that they wanted to keep me younger for a specific reason. It seemed like I was getting younger every year that I was on the show. I think there was a reference to me being 15, then 14."


"We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?"


"There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen."


"How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?"


"I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair."


"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."


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


"I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed."


"Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man."



"I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool."


"Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel."


"We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas."


"Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being."


"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."


"I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion."


"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse."


"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."


"If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands."


"It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid."


"Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me."
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