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Being Quotes


"Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut."


"As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series."


"When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader."



"If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously."


"I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important."


"To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics."


"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be."


"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."


"I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned."


"I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion."


"The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself."


"I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was."



"There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other."


"If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness."


"Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after."


"I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses."


"I think being eclectic is bad when you're just starting out."


"Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been."


"I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps."



"Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression."


"Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper."



"Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism."


"Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?"


"Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing."


"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."


"I can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry. And it really is the least I can do."


"Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being."


"Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses."


"I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed."


"The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."


"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."


"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
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