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Being Quotes
"I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled."
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"I'm excited about being here in an organization that I grew up rooting for... I'm excited about being an Atlanta Brave and pitching in Game 1."
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"Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path."
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"The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."
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"As soon as I landed at Malta I found that though I could go to Tunis I could not go away without being quarantined for ten days and if I remained in Malta I must stay a week."
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"So to get back to being intimidated, yes, you get intimidated when you're on the runway with Naomi Campbell, who is the best runway model in the world."
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"The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer."
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"I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really."
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"The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself."
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"I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing."
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"Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you."
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"I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill."
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"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
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"My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy."
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"I think being eclectic is bad when you're just starting out."
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"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."
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"Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing."
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"Actually, I don't really like being confused with my image."
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"The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated."
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"We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids."
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"Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door."
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"After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories."
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"One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism."
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"The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being."
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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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"Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact."
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"As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series."
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"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough."
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"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is."
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"There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all."
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"Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts."
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"I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion."
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"We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves."
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"I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell."
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