This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
~By Will Rogers ~
I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.
~By Tiffeny Milbrett ~
My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.
~By Helen Reddy ~
I was interested in being in Fight Club, but I wanted Edward's part, but since they're not going to hand a girl those parts you have to manifest destiny and not complain, bitch or whine.
~By Courtney Love ~
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
~By William James ~
Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.
~By Rick Yune ~
And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position.
~By Joe Miller ~
The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored.
~By Penn Jillette ~
What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.
~By Erykah Badu ~
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
~By Simone Weil ~
Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.
~By Herschel Walker ~
Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
~By Asa Gray ~
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
We heard later through the grapevine that we were being compared to the Furious 5, and because of that we were getting feedback that they were saying that we werent all that, that we were copying them... blah blah blah.
~By Kool Moe Dee ~
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.
~By Gunther Schuller ~
There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.
~By Leland Stanford ~
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
~By Lucy Ellman ~
You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in.
~By David R. Ellis ~
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
~By Josh McDowell ~
I love being a freak. It's great!
~By Brian Molko ~
It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.
~By Ryan Phillippe ~
Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.
~By Dennis Rodman ~
There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell.
~By Stephen Colbert ~
For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.
~By Theodore White ~
War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.
~By John Otto ~
C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new.
~By Dennis Ritchie ~
The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.
~By Rick Boucher ~
Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.
~By Joyce Appleby ~
Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer.
~By Lisa Leslie ~
I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.
~By Kylie Minogue ~
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.
~By Stephanie Beacham ~
It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
~By Jeremy Bentham ~
The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
~By C. Everett Koop ~
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
~By David Rockefeller ~
Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.
~By Scott Caan ~
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
~By Anthony Storr ~
There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
~By Bram Stoker ~
I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.
~By Ben Affleck ~
There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.
~By Ron Paul ~
It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.
~By Ted Allen ~
When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one.
~By Tim Reid ~
I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
~By Robert Anthony ~
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.
~By Gary Cole ~
Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.
~By Greg Walden ~
Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.
~By Sri Chinmoy ~
Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.
~By Christie Hefner ~
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
~By Eartha Kitt ~
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.
~By Laurel Clark ~
I am still in shock and awe at being fired.
~By Peter Arnett ~
The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.
~By Alex Grey ~
After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.
~By Rupert Grint ~
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
~By Bob Geldof ~
Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
~By Thucydides ~
Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.
~By Angie Everhart ~
I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
~By Ralph Steadman ~
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
~By James Dean ~
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
~By Beatrice Wood ~
For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of.
~By George Clooney ~
We are not yet at the point where our size, our being the drama industry, is sufficient to support full time professional crews, and that is very very important.
~By Ann Macbeth ~
Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.
~By Brenda Blethyn ~
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.
~By Juliette Lewis ~
Being away from her is torturous and I'd much prefer to be with her. So I just try to get out of here as soon as I can. I make sure I do my job real well and fast.
~By Richard Dean Anderson ~
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
~By Doug Larson ~
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
~By Robert Foster Bennett ~
I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.
~By Tim Roth ~
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
~By John Updike ~
I don't like being told someone's interpretation of something that I do.
~By Jonathan Brandis ~
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.
~By Diane Kruger ~
Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.
~By Annette Funicello ~
Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
~By Peter Nivio Zarlenga ~
I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
~By George A. Romero ~
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.
~By Bryan Robson ~
It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
~By Rachel Hunter ~
The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.
~By Bob Greene ~
Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.
~By John Elway ~
I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
~By Randy Harrison ~
Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.
~By Mike Huckabee ~
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
~By Ludwig von Mises ~
I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
~By Emma Thompson ~
You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.
~By Martin Amis ~
Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.
~By Roy Lichtenstein ~
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