Being Quotes
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Not a perfect soul, I am perfecting. Not a human being, I am a human becoming.
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You can't help the poor by being one of them.
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You get to the point where you decide that you don't want to be a victim anymore and that you're not going to live your life like that.
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Being on time is a filthy habit practised only by roosters and retirees.
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That as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
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Being a rapper as a woman is not a good thing in Afghanistan. I kind of put my life in danger whenever I go somewhere to talk about women's rights or make music, rap, or have interviews.
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Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
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It's not enough to be sick and tired of something. You've got to be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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We're not supposed to win, so it puts pressure on everybody else. We've played good baseball like we've done all year, and we're just being ourselves. People are going to continue to count us out, but at the same time, just be the White Sox that we were from the first game of the season.
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I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
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Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life.
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Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.
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If I love freedom above all else, then any commitment becomes a metaphor, a symbol. This touches on the difference between the forest fleer and the partisan:this distinction is not qualitative but essential in nature. The anarch is closer to Being. The partisan moves within the social or national party structure, the anarch is outside of it. Of course, the anarch cannot elude the party structure, since he lives in society.
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Be who you are, and go the whole way.
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I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.
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Being is born of not being.
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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
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As a female band, we don't come from trying to be appealing or "sexy." There are a lot of bands - and I'm not dissing anyone - that talk a lot about being girls. I'm more into the idea of being ourselves and letting that speak for itself.
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The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
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I think being a dragon would be pretty awesome... you get to fly.
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One good thing about being young is that you're not experienced enough to know what can't be done.
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I really love yoga. I love the mindfulness of it, where not only are you exercising your body, but you're also building that mind/body connection as far as being aware of every movement - what your body's doing, how your body's feeling.
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Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film [War of the Worlds]. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.
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I guess I just do being a man different than some.
