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"If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000."
Joel Hodgson
"If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000."
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"I enjoy being single, but I loved being married."
Stephanie Mills
"I enjoy being single, but I loved being married."
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"The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants."
Helen Wills Moody
"The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants."
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"There is no way, believe me, despite my name being Winfield, and loving the game dearly. It wasn't in the cards. I didn't know what it was going to take to get here."
Dave Winfield
"There is no way, believe me, despite my name being Winfield, and loving the game dearly. It wasn't in the cards. I didn't know what it was going to take to get here."
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"'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'"
John Abbott
"'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'"
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"I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect."
Brian Molko
"I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect."
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"I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them."
Ethel Merman
"I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them."
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"Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera."
Kim Weston
"Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera."
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"It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious."
Esther Williams
"It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious."
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"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."
Todd Barry
"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."
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"Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together."
Josh Silver
"Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together."
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"I don't know if I like being the sentimental favorite."
John Elway
"I don't know if I like being the sentimental favorite."
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"If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do."
Andrew Shue
"If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do."
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"The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible."
Galen Rowell
"The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible."
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"Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it."
Richard M. Nixon
"Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it."
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"Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy."
Bo Jackson
"Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy."
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"I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way."
Kathy Acker
"I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way."
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"Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too."
Christopher Plummer
"Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too."
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"At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours."
Marian McPartland
"At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours."
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"I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together."
Eric San
"I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together."
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"I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible."
Rachel Weisz
"I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible."
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"Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady."
Gloria Gaynor
"Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady."
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"One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider."
Larry McMurtry
"One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider."
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"Fiction's about what it is to be a human being."
David Foster Wallace
"Fiction's about what it is to be a human being."
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"My first four roles were all nice guys, Raggedy Man being one of them."
Eric Roberts
"My first four roles were all nice guys, Raggedy Man being one of them."
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"Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being."
Armstrong Williams
"Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being."
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"I have been in danger of being drowned twice."
John Aubrey
"I have been in danger of being drowned twice."
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"Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed."
Julius Erving
"Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed."
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"When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter."
Yakov Smirnoff
"When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter."
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"I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China."
Rob Lowe
"I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China."
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"Then I just moved into being a DJ when that turned into the hottest thing."
Jam Master Jay
"Then I just moved into being a DJ when that turned into the hottest thing."
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"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film."
Michelangelo Antonioni
"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film."
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"I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago."
Jim Sullivan
"I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago."
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"So after being with somebody for any number of days like that, you can't help but feel for them. You can't help them, but you certainly can root for them."
Wink Martindale
"So after being with somebody for any number of days like that, you can't help but feel for them. You can't help them, but you certainly can root for them."
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"The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication."
Rick Boucher
"The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication."
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"I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me."
James C. Maxwell
"I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me."
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"Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me."
Skeet Ulrich
"Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me."
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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."
Mark Davis
"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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"I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish."
Billy Crystal
"I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish."
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"Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain."
Doug Coupland
"Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain."
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"If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth."
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
"If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth."
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"I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting."
Alan Rickman
"I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting."
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"She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring."
Marquis de Sade
"She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring."
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"Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals."
Colman McCarthy
"Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals."
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"I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity."
Billy Corgan
"I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity."
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"Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party."
Simon Hoggart
"Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party."
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"Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking."
Ken Kesey
"Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking."
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"I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream."
Temple Grandin
"I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream."
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"Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do."
Vanessa Hudgens
"Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do."
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"The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf."
Marshall McLuhan
"The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf."
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