#being

I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam. ↗

— Oliver North

#divided #i #i can #into #lieutenant

As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#being #possible #thing #worst #worst thing

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#create #harmony #inner #inner peace #life

I also found being called Sir rather silly. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#being #called #found #i #rather

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#being #famous #high #just #like

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner. ↗

— Frank Dobson

#britain #cause #causes #death #dying

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#bad news #being #close #delivering #fail

It's not being marketed as a gay show by a gay person. It's just Ellen DeGeneres. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#ellen #gay #just #marketed #person

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it. ↗

— Hugh Downs

#air #anything #attention #being #ego

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

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