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Being Quotes
"I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption."
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"I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice."
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"I'd never try to be that distinctive from the Bee Gees' sound. I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee."
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"We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude."
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"I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon."
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"One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being."
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"I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had."
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"Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed."
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"Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on."
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"I was never interested in being an overly public person."
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"Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be."
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"Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able to describe all the particles that we see."
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"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good."
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"I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak."
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"Being a teenager, I would think they were real strict, and I would get upset, but I'm glad they were like that. They didn't let us do whatever we wanted. We weren't allowed to date until we were, like, juniors in high school."
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"I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around."
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"You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills."
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"What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace."
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"Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do."
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"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."
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"The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult."
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"Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper."
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"Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh."
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"We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available."
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"Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness."
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"I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska."
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"I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things."
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"I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student."
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