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Being Quotes
"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."
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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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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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"She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist."
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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."
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"There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know."
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"Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us."
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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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"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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"This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine."
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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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"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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"I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion."
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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 think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest."
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"After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film."
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"I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled."
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"I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions."
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"There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog."
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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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"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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"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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"Here's probably a short answer - I never feel in this piece that I'm stepping out and being Andrea Martin. I always feel like I'm Golde, so whatever Golde would do within those realms, that's what I would do."
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"We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds."
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"Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut."
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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."
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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."
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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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