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Being Quotes


"A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues."


"The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media."


"I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it."


"I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it."


"Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive."


"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."


"The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader."


"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks."


"The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others."


"I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!"


"The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases."


"I don't like being told someone's interpretation of something that I do."


"Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security."


"Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into."


"I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could."


"And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity."


"And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot."


"I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point."


"Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways."


"If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being."


"Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will."


"You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being."


"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be."


"It is important to experiment and endlessly seek after creating the best possible flavors when preparing foods. That means not being afraid to experiment with various ingredients."


"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."


"Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion."


"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose."


"So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"


"My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive."


"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."


"I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face."


"I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had."


"I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac."
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