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Being Quotes
"Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left."
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"Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being."
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"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical."
7
"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."
7
"This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today."
6
"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."
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"Now being upon the haunches (as he necessarily must be in this case) is it impossible but he must be light in hand, because no horse can be rightly upon his haunches without being so."
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"A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique."
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"It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence."
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"Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself."
5
"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."
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"Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy."
5
"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."
5
"The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels."
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"I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in."
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"Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week."
4
"He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter."
4
"Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation."
4
"What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?"
4
"A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was."
4
"Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union."
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"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."
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"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."
3
"Manuel Rosales is being unjustly persecuted. He won't return to Venezuela under these circumstances, because Peru will never expel him."
3
"That's what I've been always saying, that I was always using the mixed doubles especially to improve my net game and being able to return a guy's serve, 'cause then when you play someone like Serena, you are little bit more prepared for that."
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"I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive."
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"Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us."
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"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it."
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