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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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"Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse."
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"We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial."
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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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"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."
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"A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique."
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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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"The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies."
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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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"We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids."
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"Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door."
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"I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that."
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"I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible."
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"If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?"
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"So to get back to being intimidated, yes, you get intimidated when you're on the runway with Naomi Campbell, who is the best runway model in the world."
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"I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!"
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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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"I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it."
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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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"You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being."
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"Being an only child is a disease in itself."
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"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose."
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"Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead."
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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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"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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"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."
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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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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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"I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really."
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"The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory."
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"There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know."
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