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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."
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"I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide."
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"Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations."
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"I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over."
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"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
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"Being a teenager, I would think they were real strict, and I would get upset, but I'm glad they were like that. They didn't let us do whatever we wanted. We weren't allowed to date until we were, like, juniors in high school."
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"The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences."
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"Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate."
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"There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being."
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"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
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"I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter."
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"Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper."
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"I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska."
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"Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same."
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"This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured."
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"Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can."
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"To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him."
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"Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house."
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"Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?"
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"It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights."
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"I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead."
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"Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done."
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"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"
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"The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience."
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"But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a bit too much."
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"The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano."
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"Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism."
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"No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so."
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"It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video."
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"When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut."
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"The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful."
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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."
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"When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem."
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