Being Quotes

Being the Republican front-runner was three of the most exciting hours of my entire life. I've come to grips with it, and the only lasting effect is that I refuse to go on a stage that has more than one podium on it.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.

Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

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.

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

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.