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Being Quotes
"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
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"Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts."
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"Being an only child is a disease in itself."
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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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"We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless."
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"Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments."
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"They have the big ferris wheel and we've been out of town for two months, so he just was like, 'Mommy I want to go to Toys R Us and I don't care if you have a movie coming out and all that.' He was just being a kid. But I had to allow him to have that moment."
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"Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon."
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"If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty."
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"Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed."
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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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"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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"When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said."
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"I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant."
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"Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being."
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"Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress."
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"Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days."
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"I like being on this stage because it keeps me thinking."
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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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"I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac."
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"I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled."
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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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"Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself."
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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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"I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free."
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"Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali."
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"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
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"I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell."
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"A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique."
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"We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces."
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"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself."
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"Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections."
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