Being Quotes

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.

I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

Being mean about other people isn't on my radar.

I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

I never thought about being famous.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.

A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.