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"Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me."
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"I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish."
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"There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more."
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"We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the changes were because of injuries. But that's where I give a lot of credit to the group in terms of being able to maintain things."
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"It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing."
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"Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party."
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"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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"It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it."
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"The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection."
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"Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you."
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"How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness."
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"I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person."
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"I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other."
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"What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe."
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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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"I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery."
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"I never had that reputation of being not accessible."
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"The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward."
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"We know that this man has a proven record of being a 'strict constructionist.' Our President has given us his word that he will interpret the Constitution rather than make new laws from the bench."
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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's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected."
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"A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure."
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"Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done."
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"In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens."
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"Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth."
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"The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy."
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"It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark."
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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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"I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch on the next song; I'd play piano... we'd play mandolin."
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"The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat."
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"A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer."
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"I am tired of being in an industry that doesn't appreciate me."
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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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