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Being Quotes
"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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"I don't like being told someone's interpretation of something that I do."
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"You have a nice personality, but not for a human being."
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"We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal."
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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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"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 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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"Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism."
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"I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!"
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"I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder."
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"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."
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"The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists."
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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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"I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake."
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"The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood."
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"There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being."
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"Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself."
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"If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously."
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"Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really."
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"Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve."
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"Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold."
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"Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame."
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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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"Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections."
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"But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me."
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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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"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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"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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"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
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"I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered."
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"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."
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"Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing."
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