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Being Quotes
"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse."
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"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."
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"Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by."
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"If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands."
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"Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid."
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"There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got."
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"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."
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"I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are."
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"Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy."
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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."
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"Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same."
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"After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity."
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"We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet."
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"I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?"
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"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"
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"Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used."
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"We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right."
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"I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics."
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"But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a bit too much."
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"Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that."
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"I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being."
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"Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely."
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"Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess."
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"I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14."
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"I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong."
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"Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy."
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"Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful."
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"I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place."
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"I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused."
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"I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress."
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"The transponder requirements have three major sections, namely the chip; the antenna; and the assembly of the chip and the antenna onto the goods being labelled."
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