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Being Quotes
"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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"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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"My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy."
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"I think being eclectic is bad when you're just starting out."
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"Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity."
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"We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone."
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"He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist."
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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."
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"Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days."
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"One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism."
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"I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways."
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"Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants."
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"My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation."
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"There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol."
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"I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry!"
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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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"Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being."
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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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"Being in touch with the natural world is crucial."
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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."
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"The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality."
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"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough."
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"Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased."
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"All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it."
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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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"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 in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on."
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"I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was."
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"Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had."
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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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"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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"But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world."
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