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Being Quotes
"We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves."
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"There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know."
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"Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse."
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"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."
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"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder."
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"You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible."
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"So to get back to being intimidated, yes, you get intimidated when you're on the runway with Naomi Campbell, who is the best runway model in the world."
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"Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place."
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"We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal."
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"We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial."
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"I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened."
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"When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss."
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"There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag."
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"To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation."
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"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
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"I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that."
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"Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world."
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"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."
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"There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity."
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"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements."
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"One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us."
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"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."
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"What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being."
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"I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution."
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"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."
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"I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources."
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"I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things."
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"The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward."
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"I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible."
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"The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being."
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"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."
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"I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here."
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"As soon as I landed at Malta I found that though I could go to Tunis I could not go away without being quarantined for ten days and if I remained in Malta I must stay a week."
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"Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them."
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