Being Quotes

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Toby not being there doesn't bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as long as they've got an understanding of what I want and what I'm aiming for. To start with, when he left, it was difficult.

The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.

You become very known for being someone's girlfriend, and all of a sudden there's all this hype and buzz for all the wrong reasons.

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things.

As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

I just miss - I miss being anonymous.

Being a teenager, I would think they were real strict, and I would get upset, but I'm glad they were like that. They didn't let us do whatever we wanted. We weren't allowed to date until we were, like, juniors in high school.

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.