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Being Quotes


"Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able to describe all the particles that we see."



"I am president now, and tired of being kicked around."



"I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are."



"I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed."



"With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit."


"Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent."



"That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood."


"George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters."


"A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world."



"The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do."


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



"The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets."



"We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet."


"I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?"



"Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black."


"I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy."


"Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used."


"If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not."


"To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe."


"It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band."


"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."


"Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real."


"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."


"I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes."


"Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you."


"The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis."


"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!"



"McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales."


"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 put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me."


"I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things."
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