Being Quotes
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My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic.
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Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life," Asher said. "A day is made of a thousand decisions, most small, some huge. With each decision you have the chance to work toward light, or sink toward darkness.
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I guess I'm a pretty curious person. I like doing new things. I like being challenged. I'm competitive. Trying to beat my personal best.
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I realized that a great deal of life is exactly and precisely about being able to feel pain: my own and other people's.
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My own view is that friendship is essential to our becoming who we are. It provides a context within which we can, more or less safely, try different ways of being, different approaches to life, and our friends, to whom we open ourselves and by whom we are willing to be influenced and directed, play a central role in what becomes of us.
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Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.
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You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.
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There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.
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You need to learn to say no and need to recognise when you're being exploited.
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I am often asked how does being a woman affect my work at Affectiva. Honestly, I don't think it does.
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As long as we are being remembered, we remain alive
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What was worse, being crazy or being evil?
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I was just 18 years old, excited about being drafted to the N.B.A. I felt like all of Houston was watching me. My high school was watching me. I think they had a draft party at my coach's house. I'll never forget that day, being in the green room with my family and my agent.
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We're so lucky to take being alive for granted.
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When you are 20 years old, you are immature.
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The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.
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It's very hard, for most of us to tolerate being loved.
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Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?
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Love is woven into the very fabric of our being.
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I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.
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I still get a few dirty looks over the racks in the supermarket, but nobody kicks me in the shins on Water Street. I've made sort of a point, apart from being a social dud, not to fraternize with the people I write about.
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Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.
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You can't help the poor by being one of them.
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If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.
