Quotes with woman-being

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  • Barry Marshall In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Bruce Dern In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.
    Bruce Dern
    American actor (1936 - )
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  • Ben Hecht In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Bill Murray In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Bruce Lee In Jeet Kune Do, it's not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. 'Being' is more valued than doing.
    The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Bethenny Frankel In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.
    Bethenny Frankel
    American reality television personality, entrepreneur, and author (1970 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Brad Holland In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Carole King In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Bernadette Peters In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Boris Spassky In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Jane Austen In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Nancy Astor In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
    Nancy Astor
    First woman Member of Parliament (1879 - 1964)
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  • Roy Hattersley In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory - horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene - and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bode Miller In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Emma Goldman In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, ''until death doth part.''
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Bram Cohen In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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  • Eugenie Clark In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.
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  • Will Rogers In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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