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Being Quotes
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
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"Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture."
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"She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short."
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"Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion."
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"Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then of course, you never do or you do it for a couple of weeks and slough it back off again but I'm being forced to do something that I really want to do and I loved it."
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"There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero."
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"Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line."
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"Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this great, fair city, and to see it being drowned like this is almost unbearable."
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"An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts."
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"The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended."
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"He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."
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"The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment."
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"I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever."
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"Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished."
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"Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private individuals and private individuals. That crime is going on, every day, on a single entity known as the Internet."
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"I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers."
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"The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil."
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"I am so tired of being told by Democratic operatives to "suck it up" because so many other profound issues are at stake."
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"If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important."
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"I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation."
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"No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying."
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"I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly."
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"Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes."
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"Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting."
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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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"Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other."
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"You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen."
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"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
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"Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me."
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"I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing."
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"We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman."
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