People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
~By Scott Turow ~
I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.
~By Faith Ringgold ~
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
~By Harvey Cox ~
A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.
~By Gina Gershon ~
I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.
~By George Shearing ~
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 ~
What I fear is being in the presence of evil and doing nothing. I fear that more than death.
~By Otilia De Koster ~
I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!
~By Bruce Dickinson ~
Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
~By George P. Baker ~
It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.
~By Winona Ryder ~
So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.
~By Bill Sienkiewicz ~
People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.
~By Kristin Scott Thomas ~
My wife being a trainer helps, because when I'm at home, everything we keep at the house is pretty healthy.
~By James Denton ~
In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.
~By Julius Erving ~
I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.
~By Mickey Rourke ~
We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.
~By Eden Ahbez ~
I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.
~By Molly Ringwald ~
The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
~By Billy Connolly ~
Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for halloween everyday.
~By Gwen Stefani ~
People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.
~By Christo ~
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.
~By Jeff Miller ~
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
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 ~
Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live.
~By Isaac Rosenberg ~
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 ~
I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.
~By William Kempe ~
On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.
~By Henry Hampton ~
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
~By Alexander Herzen ~
I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don't realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model.
~By Brian Littrell ~
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
~By Jane Austen ~
Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.
~By John Dykstra ~
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
~By Plato ~
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
~By Evan Esar ~
For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.
~By Donnie Yen ~
Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time.
~By Dylan Moran ~
The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.
~By Eric Bogosian ~
I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.
~By Kurt Loder ~
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
~By Adam Smith ~
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.
~By Edie Falco ~
Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.
~By Ted Rall ~
There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
~By Roseanne Barr ~
And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.
~By John Frusciante ~
I am tired of being in an industry that doesn't appreciate me.
~By Luther Campbell ~
There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
~By Herman Melville ~
My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.
~By Graham Norton ~
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
~By James Madison ~
For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.
~By Christopher Plummer ~
What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.
~By Terry Gross ~
Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.
~By Li Peng ~
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.
~By James C. Maxwell ~
You ought to try being cruel to some people.
~By Mike Judge ~
First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.
~By Bo Jackson ~
I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
~By Princess Diana ~
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
~By Peabo Bryson ~
Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.
~By Bobby Rahal ~
Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.
~By Peter Hammill ~
I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.
~By John Mayer ~
But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.
~By Jon Ronson ~
Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!
~By John Foxe ~
It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.
~By Andy Partridge ~
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
~By Bill Cosby ~
That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.
~By John Amery ~
An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
~By W. E. B. Du Bois ~
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.
~By John Foxe ~
It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.
~By Sister Parish ~
The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
~By Rainer W. Fassbinder ~
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
~By Al Goldstein ~
I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
~By Billy Joel ~
Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.
~By Ken Auletta ~
Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.
~By H. R. Giger ~
I definitely enjoy being in front of people which gives me that exciting immediate rush.
~By Marilu Henner ~
The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.
~By Liv Tyler ~
I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.
~By Kirsty Gallacher ~
A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.
~By Barbara Deming ~
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
~By Doris Lessing ~
A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
~By Henry Winkler ~
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
~By George S. Patton ~
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
~By Frederick William Faber ~
You never know how things will last, if they will last, and how people will use them in the future. It was a fun movie for young people at the time in the 80s; but it struck a cord with people and it has lasted so I'm very proud of being a part of that.
~By Blair Underwood ~
I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!
~By Sean Patrick Thomas ~
I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.
~By Kenneth More ~
Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.
~By Holly Near ~
Toby not being there doesn't bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as long as they've got an understanding of what I want and what I'm aiming for. To start with, when he left, it was difficult.
~By Jay Kay ~
Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.
~By Ashley Scott ~
I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked.
~By Rosanna Arquette ~
Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?
~By Sue Johanson ~
We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.
~By David Axelrod ~
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