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"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."
Dick Cheney
"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."
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"The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media."
Vince McMahon
"The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media."
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"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."
Anderson Cooper
"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."
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"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."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"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."
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"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."
Donald Trump
"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."
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"A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable."
Eileen Caddy
"A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable."
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"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."
Soren Kierkegaard
"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."
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"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it."
Herodotus
"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it."
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"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."
David Prowse
"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."
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"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks."
Daniel Boone
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks."
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"The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others."
Doug Larson
"The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others."
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"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!"
David Geffen
"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!"
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"The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases."
Caskie Stinnett
"The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases."
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"I don't like being told someone's interpretation of something that I do."
Jonathan Brandis
"I don't like being told someone's interpretation of something that I do."
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"Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security."
B. Carroll Reece
"Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security."
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"Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into."
Kate Hudson
"Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into."
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"I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could."
James Taylor
"I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could."
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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."
Lawrence Hargrave
"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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"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."
Patty Hearst
"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."
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"I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point."
Susan Sarandon
"I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point."
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"Being stuck in airports, you always end up buying perfume and sunglasses."
Lexa Doig
"Being stuck in airports, you always end up buying perfume and sunglasses."
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"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."
Samuel McChord Crothers
"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."
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"No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior."
Sydney Smith
"No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior."
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"If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being."
Gene Hackman
"If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being."
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"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."
John Acton
"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."
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"One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking."
Wole Soyinka
"One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking."
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"Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being."
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"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."
Richard J. Needham
"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."
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"I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else."
Steve Albini
"I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else."
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"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be."
Oprah Winfrey
"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be."
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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."
Rocco DiSpirito
"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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"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
Marilyn vos Savant
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
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"On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable."
Carter Burwell
"On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable."
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"Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young."
Duke Ellington
"Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young."
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"Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema."
Mary Garden
"Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema."
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"I remember how to be a person by being around them."
Natalie Portman
"I remember how to be a person by being around them."
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"Jazz is about being in the moment."
Herbie Hancock
"Jazz is about being in the moment."
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"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it."
W. C. Fields
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it."
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"Being born in a stable does not make one a horse."
Arthur Wellesley
"Being born in a stable does not make one a horse."
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"Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion."
Christopher Knight
"Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion."
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"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose."
Ayrton Senna
"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose."
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"So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"
Christina Aguilera
"So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"
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"I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible."
Dan Fouts
"I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible."
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"My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive."
Boris Johnson
"My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive."
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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."
Helmut Jahn
"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'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."
Rafael Palmeiro
"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."
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"Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world."
Mary Garden
"Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world."
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"I can't believe we're being paid to live in New York."
Blake Lively
"I can't believe we're being paid to live in New York."
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"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."
Uri Geller
"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."
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"I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac."
Joanna Newsom
"I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac."
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