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Being Quotes
"The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings."
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"This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine."
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"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"
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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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"Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being."
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"But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country."
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"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
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"I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian."
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"When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader."
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"Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures."
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"I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered."
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"She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist."
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"Being an only child is a disease in itself."
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"Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real."
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"And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation."
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"Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation."
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"Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero."
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"The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient."
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"Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration."
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"Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter."
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"Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard."
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"We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial."
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"Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have."
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"I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person."
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