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Being Quotes
"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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"There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true."
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"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."
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"Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal."
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"Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat."
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"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."
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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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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try."
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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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"What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid."
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"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
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"When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good."
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"Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry."
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"Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable."
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"In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem."
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"Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!"
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"Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees."
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"A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived."
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"I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods."
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"It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you."
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"Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices."
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"Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species."
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"Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before."
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"Watching the completed version of The Two Towers for example, I was very conscious of scenes - sometimes whole sequences - that I had seen being filmed or edited but which hadn't made it into the final cut."
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"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."
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