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Being Quotes


"Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. That's more detrimental."


"I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible."


"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is."


"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."


"I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are."


"Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets."


"I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac."


"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive."


"I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion."



"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."


"Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive."


"I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned."


"When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss."


"No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one."


"Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it."


"It's great being blonde - with such low expectations it's easy to impress."


"Living with a saint is more grueling than being one."


"Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it."


"We're going to see fugitives and felons, eventually, being able to get guns much more easily."


"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."


"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."


"The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in."


"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose."


"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."


"There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag."


"All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns."


"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."


"Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin."
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