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Being Quotes
"Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin."
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"It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late."
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"Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."
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"Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being."
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"The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."
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"Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril."
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"Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself."
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"I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska."
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"I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians."
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"The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer."
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"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be."
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"If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not."
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"If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem."
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"I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really."
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"I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other."
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"Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door."
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"There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about."
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"Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after."
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"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters."
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"After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories."
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"I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that."
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"I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled."
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"The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings."
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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."
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"I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country."
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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."
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"Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl."
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"I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight."
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"Yes, I mean, There's nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but there's also nothing like the thrill you get being in the same space with that audience right there and then. And when you do it, it's over."
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"When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book."
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"I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy."
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