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Being Quotes


"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."


"Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words."


"As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure."


"Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot."


"If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years."


"The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself."



"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."



"That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require."


"All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish."


"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11."


"The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being."


"I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up."


"There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne."


"It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?"



"It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26."


"I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces."


"The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape."


"Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners."



"A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself."


"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."



"Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted."


"I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt."


"Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with."


"Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes."


"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."


"If I was 30th in points and not making races and not being competitive in races, I could understand them saying I'm over-the-hill or I'm ready to quit or whatever."


"I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22."


"All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four."


"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."



"The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil."



"You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable."


"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."


"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
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