Being Quotes

Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions!

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

I don't believe in being mean to anyone. I'm a really peaceful person. That's something I get from my family.

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.

Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?

Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.