Being Quotes

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

I think what they're looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible.

I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

It's time for these people to have accountability for what is being done.

I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I'm concerned about people being happy.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

Being pregnant was the healthiest I've ever been in my life. Except for the cupcakes.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I hate love. Hate being in love. I never want it to happen to me again.

I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

I have fun being sexy and tough at the same time.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.