Being Quotes

And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.

I think part of being an actor is staying private.

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

You know, me winning two gold medals, going for a third one, that's nice. But being there with Mark and my sister, and my brother being the coach, it's a dream come true. It's going to be awesome.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool.

The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.

I loved Rent when I first heard it, but it grew on me and so did Tick, Tick... Boom. Some songs are more interesting than others and sometimes the ones that never stood out at first end up being the best to perform.

So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.

I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.