Being Quotes
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All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.
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And I rejoiced in being what I was.
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Life is not easy. But that's not the only truth that matters in this context. It also happens to be true that it takes just as much effort to have a "bad life," in which you don't get what you want, as it does to have a "good life," where you do. So given the choice, why not go for the good life?
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All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns.
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I didn't get to be this smart by not being stupid
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What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.
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Being brave doesn't mean always having to fight alone.
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Every human being is a work of art.
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If something is worth being rude about, it is worth understanding as well.
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What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
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I absolutely love being a mother.
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For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being an 'Old Negro', disassociating oneself from the symbols and legacy of slavery - being urbane, assertive militant.
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If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.
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The thing I hate about being dead is you can’t move on. I was in love with him when I died, so I’ll be in love with him till the sun burns out.
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To recognize that you are radically free, in Sartre's sense, but then to live as if you weren't, is to live in bad faith, in denial of what you know to be true. And that's not something anyone can sensibly want to do.
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Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.
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With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.
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Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.
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If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.
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Being normal is completely overrated!
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Civilization itself is housed in the human being.
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There will be a great hole in the fabric of my being when he is gone, but not as great a hole as the one had I not known him.
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There is nothing like being able to develop a three-dimensional character over a long period of time. Sometimes you aren't able to fully portray a character because you only have a couple of scenes to do it in, and you don't get the full life and background of that character.
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With me being in my 40s, I knew who I was.
