I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.
~By Lara Flynn Boyle ~
It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.
~By Ajay Naidu ~
I'm always being realistic.
~By Stefan Edberg ~
The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.
~By John McGahern ~
I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.
~By Tim Robbins ~
A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
~By Christopher Fry ~
I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country.
~By John Engler ~
From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
~By George Berkeley ~
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.
~By Bobby Brown ~
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
~By Nastassja Kinski ~
I've always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it's the type of thing I could get used to.
~By Donnie Iris ~
As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
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 ~
Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.
~By Richard Dean Anderson ~
If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
~By Marilyn Moats Kennedy ~
Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.
~By Roy Blunt ~
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
~By Arthur Peacocke ~
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.
~By Alan Shepard ~
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
~By Paul Tillich ~
I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I'm going to stab my gay brother in the back who isn't butch and who maybe acts a little bit more effeminate, what good is that?
~By Kyan Douglas ~
It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.
~By David Antin ~
There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
~By Lactantius ~
There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.
~By Honus Wagner ~
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.
~By Kobe Bryant ~
The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.
~By Robert Vaughn ~
There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards.
~By Norman Granz ~
I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.
~By Dana Delany ~
I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
~By Kurt Cobain ~
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
That's what I've been always saying, that I was always using the mixed doubles especially to improve my net game and being able to return a guy's serve, 'cause then when you play someone like Serena, you are little bit more prepared for that.
~By Daniela Hantuchova ~
The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.
~By William Ruckelshaus ~
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.
~By James Ellroy ~
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
~By Daniel Day Lewis ~
Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
~By Natasha Henstridge ~
We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.
~By Georg Buchner ~
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
~By Honore De Balzac ~
The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.
~By George Montgomery ~
If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
~By Gabriel Heatter ~
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.
~By Knut Hamsun ~
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
~By Claude Monet ~
I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans.
~By Robbie Coltrane ~
For me, its like go ahead and eat. Live your life. I mean, I've just seen so much death, you know, as of late, being in my 40s, of people getting sick or, you know, whatever, that I just feel like, you know what? You never know with life. Eat. Enjoy yourself. Just try to be healthy and, you know, and watch it.
~By Debi Mazar ~
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
~By Franz Kafka ~
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
~By George Orwell ~
Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments.
~By Alan Young ~
There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.
~By Claire Danes ~
Much of my work has come from being lazy.
~By John Backus ~
And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.
~By Al Franken ~
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
~By John Ruskin ~
An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.
~By Larry Doby ~
I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again.
~By Christopher Darden ~
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.
~By Carol Kane ~
You are the God-being that is here to create life, to breathe soul into your body, to walk this world as your own source of power, love, worth and life.
~By Joy Page ~
I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.
~By Isabel Yosito ~
I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.
~By Mark Mothersbaugh ~
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.
~By Robert Downey, Jr. ~
Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.
~By Thurston Moore ~
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.
~By Andrew Denton ~
It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.
~By Josh Schwartz ~
Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
~By B. Carroll Reece ~
He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.
~By Ernest Renan ~
Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.
~By Edward James Olmos ~
The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~
But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.
~By Douglas Wood ~
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
~By Lawrence Durrell ~
This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.
~By Ernie Fletcher ~
With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.
~By Bruce Conner ~
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
~By Mel Brooks ~
Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.
~By Bill O'Reilly ~
The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
Being as versatile as I am, I take offense to the notion that no serious musician would not be doing a late night talk show gig. One has to be open enough in other areas to be able to contribute to a show like this.
~By Kevin Eubanks ~
That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
~By Elizabeth Wurtzel ~
But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.
~By William H. Seward ~
One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago.
~By Steve Kanaly ~
Apart from being Jennifer Lewis. The name pulls people in.
~By Jenifer Lewis ~
We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.
~By Martin Heidegger ~
There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there.
~By Lloyd Bridges ~
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
~By P. G. Wodehouse ~
We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.
~By Art Garfunkel ~
Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.
~By Chaka Khan ~
There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.
~By Dan O'Brien ~
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
~By Doug Larson ~
I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.
~By John Frusciante ~
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