I love being someone I'm not for a period of time. I love every minute of being in someone else's skin.
~By Jessica Biel ~
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
~By Josh McDowell ~
I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
~By Hal Sutton ~
We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don't deal with ourselves and don't deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
~By Vicki Baum ~
A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
~By Robert Kiyosaki ~
Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times.
~By Bill Irwin ~
I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.
~By Melissa Etheridge ~
I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.
~By Billy Higgins ~
No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.
~By Merrill Markoe ~
I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.
~By Paul Nurse ~
I'm real excited about being on CBS and hosting this show. I have been studying all of the great CBS shows. I think I'm prepared, so if you're ready, let's have the first item up for bids.
~By Ray Combs ~
Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.
~By Joseph Glanvill ~
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
~By Robert Frost ~
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're going to have a surprising experience.
~By Matthew Bourne ~
If you get through the primary and you work very hard for three months and you're not successful, you go back to being normal. The only thing that changes your life forever is if you win.
~By Max Burns ~
I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don't know yet.
~By Shaquille O'Neal ~
Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
~By Aimee Mann ~
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
~By e. e. cummings ~
I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.
~By Ryan Reynolds ~
I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
~By Dustin Diamond ~
I appreciate very much being injury-free.
~By Steffi Graf ~
There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.
~By Alice Miller ~
We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
~By Thomas Clarkson ~
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.
~By Johnny Vegas ~
Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.
~By Martin Heidegger ~
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.
~By Adam Clarke ~
I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
~By Gary Wright ~
I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
~By Campbell Scott ~
If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.
~By Brian Lumley ~
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
~By Paul Tillich ~
Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?
~By Chris Rock ~
The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings.
~By Marc Bloch ~
One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
~By Manfred Mann ~
Over the course of two terms, President Reagan revolutionized the Republican Party and changed the political atmosphere in a way still being felt today.
~By William L. Jenkins ~
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.
~By Philip Pullman ~
I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.
~By Angelina Jolie ~
The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
~By Winston Churchill ~
When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.
~By Woody Harrelson ~
It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
~By Terry Gross ~
There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
~By Oswald Spengler ~
We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed.
~By David Milne ~
Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.
~By Paris Hilton ~
I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
~By Tiger Woods ~
Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.
~By Nicolas Cage ~
There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.
~By Colleen McCullough ~
I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
~By Leon Kass ~
Well, mines was a sub machine gun. That was my personal weapon with being the first person in the patrol. I used to lead the patrol. Used to have a leading scout, a second scout and then the officer. The officer would be third. As I say, it was educational.
~By David Walker ~
Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?
~By Mark Thomas ~
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
~By W. H. Auden ~
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
~By John W. Gardner ~
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.
~By Chaka Khan ~
I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.
~By Sandra Bullock ~
So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.
~By Michael Stipe ~
You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.
~By Alan Shepard ~
Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
~By Bobby Unser ~
Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
~By Robert Kennedy ~
I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
~By Rafael Palmeiro ~
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.
~By Sue Wicks ~
It just gets draining on a person being in the papers every day. So I was like, I'm gonna come back here. I want to talk to all the people, the fans. I want to let them know how much I appreciate all their support.
~By Puff Daddy ~
Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.
~By Robert Shea ~
And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better.
~By Julia Ormond ~
Much of my work has come from being lazy.
~By John Backus ~
But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
~By Ira Glass ~
I feel a little guilty only being an actor.
~By Blythe Danner ~
I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.
~By Ashley Judd ~
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
~By Winston Churchill ~
But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad.
~By Michelle Branch ~
I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
~By Ruth St. Denis ~
Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
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?
~By John Lennon ~
Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
~By Dennis Hopper ~
As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
~By Abdolkarim Soroush ~
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
~By Yul Brynner ~
That may be a factor because we are the older show; we have been on the air for a while. Is it our day? Is it time to hang it up? But it seems that the show still continues, and we still enjoy being here. And that's a very important element.
~By Mark-Paul Gosselaar ~
I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great.
~By Dennis Muren ~
I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.
~By Alanis Morissette ~
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I'd like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool.
~By Bootsy Collins ~
If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
~By Isaiah Thomas ~
Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
~By Doc Severinsen ~
I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
As Andy says, being in this band in the early 1980s made you feel like you were part of a pizza. We were always one of the band, one of Duran Duran, or one of the Taylors.
~By Roger Andrew Taylor ~
Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
~By Rafael Palmeiro ~
I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
I think we're in a time when everyone's afraid to have sex. But I was raised being beautiful and healthy.
~By Alyssa Milano ~
Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.
~By John Sergeant Wise ~
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