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Being Quotes
"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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"I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no."
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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 started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could."
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"I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face."
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"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."
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"So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it."
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"I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset."
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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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"There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware."
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"You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever."
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"We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds."
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"Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."
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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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"Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on."
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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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"Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it."
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"Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you."
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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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"Order is a great person's need and their true well being."
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"I don't like being told someone's interpretation of something that I do."
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"Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance."
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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 enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in."
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"Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not."
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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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"I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything."
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"It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive."
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