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Being Quotes
"I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are."
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"No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one."
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"A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues."
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"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."
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"There's a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that."
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"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."
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"Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals."
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"She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist."
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"Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being."
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"Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door."
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"You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed."
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"Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse."
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"Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door."
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"I'm excited about being here in an organization that I grew up rooting for... I'm excited about being an Atlanta Brave and pitching in Game 1."
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"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."
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"I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars."
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"We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial."
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"Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself."
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"To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object."
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"Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else."
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"Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation."
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"Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit."
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"And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity."
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"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
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"Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways."
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"Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will."
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"I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that."
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"We're going to see fugitives and felons, eventually, being able to get guns much more easily."
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"Being an only child is a disease in itself."
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"The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies."
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"I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened."
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"When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss."
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