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Being Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more…
- Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
- People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them…
- There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which…
- It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong