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Being Quotes


"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."


"My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good."


"There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them."


"We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable."


"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."


"You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition."


"Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write."


"I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being."


"At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded."



"In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed."


"This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted."


"The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do."


"Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens."


"Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had."


"Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry."


"I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14."



"The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me."



"Some venues are better run than others. Sometimes it's just maddening to deal with full dinners being served in front of your face. You can have a good or bad show anywhere."



"I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars."


"Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together."


"I don't know if I like being the sentimental favorite."



"I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can."


"It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her."


"Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country."



"Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being."



"This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying."


"I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward."


"I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics."


"There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer."
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