Being Quotes

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.

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.

I'm not averse to being in big commercial films.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.