Being Quotes

I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this great, fair city, and to see it being drowned like this is almost unbearable.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

I love being pregnant!

There's not really anywhere I can go without being recognized, but if I put my hair up, that cuts the crowd in half.

Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.