Being Quotes

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.

I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor.

I like getting married, but I don't like being married.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.

Being busy with work, and as a mum, I'm a big fan of online shopping.

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.