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Being Quotes
"The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me."
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"It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed."
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"Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy."
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"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters."
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"The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up."
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"But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man."
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"All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns."
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"You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star."
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"I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader."
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"There is technique to it-he is just standing there flexing his arm, and I am standing there making faces as if I am being choked. You keep your head in a certain angle for the camera."
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"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag."
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"I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair."
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"If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office."
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"I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there."
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"We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas."
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"Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong."
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"The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want."
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"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it."
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"There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's all these different layers. I prefer playing Lionel because he's a human being."
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"But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country."
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"I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy."
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"The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences."
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"Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate."
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"Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs."
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"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
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"You will see the President being very, very tough on spending."
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"That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood."
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"I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered."
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"This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured."
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"Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can."
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"To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him."
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