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Being Quotes
"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am."
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"At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being."
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"We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable."
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"The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience."
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"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."
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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 named a great school at a great price means that we offer both high-quality academic programs and real affordability for families. We offer a personal touch that's hard to match at a big school but without a big price tag."
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"This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted."
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"Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian."
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"Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror."
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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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"Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country."
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"It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26."
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"For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man."
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"When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50."
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"The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things."
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"Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners."
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"As Andy says, being in this band in the early 1980s made you feel like you were part of a pizza. We were always one of the band, one of Duran Duran, or one of the Taylors."
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"Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do."
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"I didn't really feel I was being hurt, but you could feel it."
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"A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow."
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"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."
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"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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"But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?"
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"We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased."
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"It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being."
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"I just want to do something risque for my debut, purely because I didn't want to make an entrance being the pretty, sweet type that I've been seen as for the last 3 years."
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"It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment."
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"Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay."
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"I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young."
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"You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year."
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