Quotes with being

Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 1877.

  • Alfred P. Sloan Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Frank Herbert Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
    Frank Herbert
    American science fiction writer (1920 - 1986)
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  • Bill Bradley Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Simone de Beauvoir Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • John Lennon Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Bill Bryson Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Myriam Miedzian Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.
    Myriam Miedzian
    American philosopher and author
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  • Brit Marling Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Ben Goldacre Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Bill Gates Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Patricia Sampson Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
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  • Marian Wright Edelman Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
    Marian Wright Edelman
    American activist for children's rights (1939 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Ang Lee Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Aishwarya Rai Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.
    Aishwarya Rai
    Indian actress and model (1973 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Marquis de Sade She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • George F. Will She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Billie Lourd She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kind of the reason she named me Billie. It's not about being a strong woman - it's about being a strong person.
    Billie Lourd
    American actress (1992 - )
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  • Marguerite Duras She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the ''woman of wax'' whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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