Being Quotes
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Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.
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I've been having these dinner parties at my house in L.A. for years that turn into charades parties. I'm so good at breaking stuff down into syllables and sounds. If I were to be doing anything else besides being an actor, I would be a professional charades player. I'm not sure if it exists, but if it didn't, I'll create it.
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I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.
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A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!
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The most important thing for me, when somebody asks me what I class as being a success, is being a decent human being.
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Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being.
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I have searched all over the world but failed to see a virtue better than being well-behaved.
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The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.
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Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.
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We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.
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But the incredible thing for me in this moment was to see both these masks, of one and the same Being, melt inseparably into each other. Because here for the first time an agonising conflict resolved itself, which I, great-grandson of an idealistic, grandson of a romantic, and son of a materialistic race, had hitherto regarded as irreconcilable. It didn’t exactly happen that an Either-Or metamorphosed into an As-Well-As. No, the real is just as fantastical as the fantastical is real. That was the wonderful thing which delighted us about the doubled images we observed through the stereoscope as children: In the same moment in which they melted together into a single picture, the new dimension of depth burst out from them.
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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
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I love the idea of being out there with little or no net.
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There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.
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I believe in taking people away from their desks and making them feel collaborative and inspire one another instead of being siloed.
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The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing.
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An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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I'd gone through life being obsessed about my sexuality. People would ask about relationships, girlfriends, you start referring to people as 'they' so there's no judgment and you can be ambiguous. People around me knew, but I still struggled with talking about it openly.
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I'd gone from being a normal HR worker from Hull to being recognised in the street, being on TV. As much as it was exciting, thrilling, and a big, huge adrenaline rush.
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The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.
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I think I'm a better collaborator, in seeing the bigger picture and trying to just help that, and not be so self-centered in whatever my task is, which is being an actor.
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We like being ridiculous and I think that's lost on a lot of people, or they think we're coming from this super serious angle, and that's too bad, really.
