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Being Quotes


"I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in."


"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."


"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."


"The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined."


"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."


"Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena."


"That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key."


"Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail."


"Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight."


"Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy."


"I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things."


"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."


"Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. That's more detrimental."


"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder."


"I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion."


"The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood."


"Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs."


"It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe."


"All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture."


"A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious."


"The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical."


"There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware."


"I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me."


"Being a teenager, I would think they were real strict, and I would get upset, but I'm glad they were like that. They didn't let us do whatever we wanted. We weren't allowed to date until we were, like, juniors in high school."


"The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely."


"Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday."


"Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being."


"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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