Being Quotes
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I didn't get to be this smart by not being stupid
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Being a bad writer a thousand times first.
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And I rejoiced in being what I was.
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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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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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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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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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I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.
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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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Being brave doesn't mean always having to fight alone.
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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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I absolutely love being a mother.
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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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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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All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns.
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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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What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
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Being normal is completely overrated!
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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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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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Civilization itself is housed in the human being.
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I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.
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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.
