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Being Quotes


"To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are."


"I didn't really feel I was being hurt, but you could feel it."


"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."


"I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I'd like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool."


"I don't like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat."


"No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me."


"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."


"A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow."


"I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed."



"I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can."


"I think by being happy it actually affects the way that you look too."


"I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears."



"Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents."


"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?"


"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."


"I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me."


"If you see swarms of guys coming around you, you have to try and avoid being stuck on the kerb."


"I am so tired of being told by Democratic operatives to "suck it up" because so many other profound issues are at stake."



"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."


"I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid."


"Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws."



"I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter."


"I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me."


"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."



"I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor."


"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."


"Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all."


"We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don't deal with ourselves and don't deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy."



"Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do."


"I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste."


"I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation."
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