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Being Quotes
"I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing."
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"Living with a saint is more grueling than being one."
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"The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is."
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"Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being."
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"Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it."
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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."
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"I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians."
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"Taylor being married and so on, that does evolve the dynamic on the road."
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"If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside."
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"The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental."
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"I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing."
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"There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about."
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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."
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"Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst."
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"Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that."
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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."
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"I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative."
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"The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore."
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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."
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"I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things."
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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."
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"I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight."
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"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."
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"Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy."
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"Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool."
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"We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects."
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"I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution."
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"Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded."
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"I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors."
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"How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?"
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"I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible."
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"I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed."
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"I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker."
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"It's great being blonde - with such low expectations it's easy to impress."
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"At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous."
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"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."
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