Being Quotes
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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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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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Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.
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Being an indie artist, you have to fight for position against a major.
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I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.
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It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing.
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I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.
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Being is born of not being.
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Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world
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I was both loved and hated for being upfront. But I was just being myself.
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You know it's hard for me to, like, act the way I've been acting. And, like, being, like, nice to everyone. And I think I deserve to be acknowledged for that.
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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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Deism claims that God creates the universe and the laws of nature and then is hands-off, with everything that subsequently happens in nature being due to natural processes.
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You just can't know the feeling of being mother to a girl who you thought might die every single day - right up until the day she did.
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I find the less you focus on your flaws, the better off you are. Be yourself and be glad of who you are.
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It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other.
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The way the universe evolves in consciousness of itself and causes itself to be. We are just this blessed consciousness, nothing more, nothing less. We are the light inside light that fuses into the atoms of our bodies; we are the fire that whirls across the stellar deeps and dances all things into being.
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Compassion is concern of others' well being.
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Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.
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When you are 20 years old, you are immature.
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Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.
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In the calm violence of your being, desire.
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Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I'd think I was someone special.
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The awful thing about being fat is you can't get away from it. Everywhere you go, there it is; all round you; hanging and swinging, yards and yards of it, under your arms, everywhere. And everyone else is so thin.
