Being Quotes

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

I believe in love, children and being a good person.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on.

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

When I was doing 'Scarface,' I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time. I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

The only peace is being out of earshot.

Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.