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Being Quotes
"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition."
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"The privilege of being at the university for four years is something I'll always treasure."
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"At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known."
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"The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things."
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"What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years."
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"The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things."
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"I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems."
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"Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism."
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"It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions."
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"If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees."
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"Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is."
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"Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted."
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"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."
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"It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim."
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"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence."
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"When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you."
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"From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress."
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"I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern."
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"I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being."
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive."
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"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."
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"Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it."
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"The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy."
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"You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store."
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