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"I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested."
Georg C. Lichtenberg
"I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested."
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"I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in."
Tony Curtis
"I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in."
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"The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today."
Hank Stram
"The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today."
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"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."
Audrey Hepburn
"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."
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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."
Peter Benenson
"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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"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."
Brooke Shields
"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."
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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."
Warren Christopher
"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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"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."
Andrzej Wajda
"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."
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"Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years."
Taylor Dane
"Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years."
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"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."
Elizabeth Wurtzel
"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."
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"Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much."
James Weldon Johnson
"Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much."
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"Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail."
Phil Crosby
"Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail."
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"While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it."
Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
"While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it."
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"Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight."
Robert Mapplethorpe
"Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight."
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"Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy."
Norma Shearer
"Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy."
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"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."
Rodney Carrington
"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."
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"My problem is how to find the best way of being useful."
Jacques Delors
"My problem is how to find the best way of being useful."
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"C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new."
Dennis Ritchie
"C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new."
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"For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters."
Nicole Appleton
"For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters."
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"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
Woodrow Wilson
"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
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"I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants."
Pat Sajak
"I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants."
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"I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day."
Thom Yorke
"I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day."
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"I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young."
Amy Grant
"I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young."
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"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."
Dick Powell
"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."
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"Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself."
Joseph A. Schumpeter
"Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself."
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"I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good."
Linda Evans
"I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good."
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"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."
Thomas Aquinas
"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."
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"The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental."
Thomas Huxley
"The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental."
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"I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion."
Billie Jean King
"I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion."
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"The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood."
Jean Cocteau
"The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood."
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"Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs."
Jim Morrison
"Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs."
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"Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?"
Mark Thomas
"Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?"
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"Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction."
Hudson Stuck
"Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction."
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"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."
Ajay Naidu
"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."
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"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."
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
"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."
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"Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one."
William Wycherley
"Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one."
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"Just being hired by a great director is complimentary."
Tom Skerritt
"Just being hired by a great director is complimentary."
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"A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious."
Joel Hodgson
"A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious."
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"The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical."
Antoinette Blackwell
"The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical."
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"The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained."
Chuck Mangione
"The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained."
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"There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware."
Doug Larson
"There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware."
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"I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me."
James C. Maxwell
"I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me."
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"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."
Denise Richards
"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."
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"The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely."
Buffalo Bill
"The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely."
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"Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday."
Jamal Lewis
"Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday."
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"Kids think of us as being totally over the hill."
Thurston Moore
"Kids think of us as being totally over the hill."
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"He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue."
George Lucas
"He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue."
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"Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being."
June Singer
"Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being."
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"All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you."
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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."
Albert Finney
"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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