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Being Quotes
"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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"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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"Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn't there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya, for being a Catholic priest. Isn't that interesting? Everybody else made the reunion but that guy."
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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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"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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"We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves."
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"I don't like being told someone's interpretation of something that I do."
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"I think being eclectic is bad when you're just starting out."
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"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."
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"Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling."
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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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"I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker."
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"I can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry. And it really is the least I can do."
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"I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways."
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"Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs."
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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 became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else."
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"I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s."
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"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."
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"I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned."
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"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
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"The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally."
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"One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us."
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"I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing."
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"Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame."
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"But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me."
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"My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy."
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"Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have."
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