Quotes with non-being

Quotes 241 till 260 of 1961.

  • 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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  • Bill Rodgers Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.
    Bill Rodgers
    American marathon athlete (1947 - )
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  • Bill Burr 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.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Bruce Rauner Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state government.
    Bruce Rauner
    American businessman, philanthropist and politician (1956 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bill Plympton Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Assata Shakur Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Buchi Emecheta Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Beck Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • John Irving Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Kingsley Amis Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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