Quotes 221 till 240 of 1877.
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Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
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Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
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Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.
Source: In ongenade (1999) -
Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.
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Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
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Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
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Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
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Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
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Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.
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Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
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Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.
Source: On Growing Up: Letters to American Boys & Girls (1962) -
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.
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Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.
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Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.
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