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Being Quotes


"When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side."


"But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty."


"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."



"Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about."



"Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!"



"I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity."


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


"There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant."


"The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it."


"That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit."



"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."


"I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events."


"To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe."


"I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again."


"The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward."



"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."


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


"How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me."


"But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty."



"After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement."



"The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared."


"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."


"I am tired of being in an industry that doesn't appreciate me."


"But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before."


"While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer."


"Lohan and I talk about just things that happen. It's Lindsay. She's great. I went from not knowing who she was to not being able to get rid of her because she's everywhere. She's on everything."


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



"Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions."


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


"Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?"


"To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them."


"Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz."


"This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this."


"Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference."


"A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences."
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