Quotes with being

Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 1877.

  • Benjamin Clementine The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really talked to people. I didn't learn to do it.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Willa Cather The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan The modern little red riding hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objections to being eaten by the wolf.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Camille Paglia The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bee Wilson The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Bertie Carvel The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Bill Williams The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.
    Bill Williams
    American actor
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.
    Gift from the Sea (1955) ch. 2
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • André Maurois The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Peter F. Drucker The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being… can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Brooke Shields The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Adam Osborne The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
    Adam Osborne
    British-American author and publisher (1939 - 2003)
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  • Plato The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bob Beauprez The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • George F. Will The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Henry Kissinger The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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