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"Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut."
Bill Griffith
"Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut."
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"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."
Randy West
"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."
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"When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader."
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader."
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"Being at a club that supported me meant a lot."
David Beckham
"Being at a club that supported me meant a lot."
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"If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously."
Billy Wilder
"If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously."
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"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."
Albert Finney
"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."
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"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."
Martin Heidegger
"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."
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"Well, my transition into being a captain was easy."
Mark Messier
"Well, my transition into being a captain was easy."
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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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"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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"Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat."
Jamie Oliver
"Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat."
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"I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned."
Paul D. Boyer
"I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned."
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"I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion."
Annni-Frid Lyngstad
"I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion."
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"The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself."
Emanuel Celler
"The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself."
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"I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was."
George Michael
"I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was."
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"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."
e. e. cummings
"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."
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"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."
"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."
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"Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on."
Trevor Dunn
"Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on."
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"If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness."
M. Esther Harding
"If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness."
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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."
Joyce Brothers
"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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"A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by."
Barry Mann
"A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by."
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"I can never really enjoy being famous."
Utada Hikaru
"I can never really enjoy being famous."
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"I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses."
Heinrich Heine
"I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses."
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"I think being eclectic is bad when you're just starting out."
Jerry Harrison
"I think being eclectic is bad when you're just starting out."
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"Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his."
Billy Sunday
"Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his."
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"Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been."
Paris Hilton
"Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been."
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"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."
Payne Stewart
"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."
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"I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up."
Ice T
"I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up."
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"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."
Robert Nozick
"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."
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"Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper."
Bo Bennett
"Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper."
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"Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina."
Althea Gibson
"Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina."
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"Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism."
Walter Lang
"Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism."
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"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?"
Morgan Freeman
"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?"
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"I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself."
Maria Sharapova
"I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself."
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"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."
Theodore Bikel
"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."
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"I'm always being realistic."
Stefan Edberg
"I'm always being realistic."
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"Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing."
Jan de Bont
"Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing."
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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 can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry. And it really is the least I can do."
April Winchell
"I can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry. And it really is the least I can do."
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"Feeling better is not actually being better."
James Randi
"Feeling better is not actually being better."
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"As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female."
Geena Davis
"As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female."
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"Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being."
Georg Simmel
"Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being."
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"Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves."
U. Thant
"Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves."
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"Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses."
Francis Parkman
"Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses."
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"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."
Bill Maher
"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."
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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."
Peter Ustinov
"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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"Being real is what is important."
Gavin Rossdale
"Being real is what is important."
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"Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself."
Walter Lang
"Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself."
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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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"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
Franklin P. Jones
"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
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