Being Quotes

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best I can be.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.

You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage.

There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.

I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

Being professional is just really clearly the way to go and helps you on the road to longevity.