Quotes with man-being

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  • B. B. King Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
    The Wit and Wisdom of Rock and Roll, ed. Maxim Jabukowski (1983)
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Kevin Costner Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
    Kevin Costner
    American actor, film director, and producer (1955 - )
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  • Billy Graham 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.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Billy Childish 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.
    Billy Childish
    English painter, author, poet and photographer (1959 - )
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  • J.M. Coetzee Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.
    In ongenade (1999)
    J.M. Coetzee
    South African-born Australian novelist (1940 - )
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  • Fanny Brice 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.
    Fanny Brice
    American comedienne and singer (1891 - 1951)
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  • Will Rogers Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Arnold Bennett Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Lionel Trilling Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Antoine Fuqua 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.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
    Fractals : Form, chance and dimension
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Brigitte Nielsen 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.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Bjork Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver 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.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Pat Riley Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Herbert Hoover Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.
    On Growing Up: Letters to American Boys & Girls (1962)
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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