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Being Quotes
"Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. That's more detrimental."
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"Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher."
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"Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch."
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"The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid."
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"I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films."
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"Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you."
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"Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals."
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"Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!"
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"You will see the President being very, very tough on spending."
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"I do remember being a fan of the Marvel characters and not liking the DC characters at all."
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"The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf."
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"Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured."
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"The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it."
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"I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events."
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"The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said."
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"The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with."
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"I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them."
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"Being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy."
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"When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do."
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"Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that."
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"Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst."
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"It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio."
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"There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears."
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"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."
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"I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being."
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"But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before."
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"To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are."
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