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Being Quotes
"The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things."
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"To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them."
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"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."
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"Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground."
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"There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got."
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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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"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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"I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity."
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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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"You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself."
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"There's nothing like being involved with a team that can go that distance."
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"Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously. The fact that a reader may buy an Armani item because she'd seen it on me in a magazine is very important to me. So much so that I intend to launch my own label."
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"I think that's the great thing about music: It can communicate emotionally. And you don't have to necessarily get all of the words. I mean you have to know what is being said, but didn't you find even if you didn't get all of the words, you certainly get the emotion?"
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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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"I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down."
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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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"Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice."
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"The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property."
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"He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."
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"Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone."
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"Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country."
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"Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought."
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"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."
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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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"The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared."
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"Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying."
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"And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better."
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"We have to scrutinize the entire abatement process to ensure the companies that are under consideration for an abatement truly need one, and I don't believe that is being done now."
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"Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished."
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