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Being Quotes



"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."



"Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being."


"Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling."


"I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing."


"The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely."


"Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference."



"I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them."


"Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures."


"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."


"There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all."


"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."


"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."


"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."



"Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?"


"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."


"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."


"It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy."



"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."



"The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano."


"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."


"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!"


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



"To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably."


"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."



"I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent."
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