Being Quotes

When you can't afford to hire the best, you hire the young who are going to be the best.

I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.

I always say to people that working full time and being a mom is probably the hardest job, because as a mom you think about your child 24/7.

Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.

I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

The most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference.

You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.

For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.

[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.

Whenever my country has something bad happening I feel guilty for not being there. It's weird.

I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.

If the Devil is real, then God must be real, too.

Nature stopped being natural decades ago.

All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive.

I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.

The people who know the sort of personality or persona that I give across more on Twitter just realize that I'm just being messy and I'm just snatching wigs.

It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.

At the end of the day, there are a hell of a lot of notes being played out there and I defy the average middle-American or the average punter to differentiate between them.

God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

If you want to be the best salesperson, first you must be the best person.

But as soon as I joined 'Six Feet Under', I felt like I was finally doing something again that the fans really loved, and I could stop being afraid of 'Clueless' fans!

Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance.

The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.

Being witty was the only side effect of being depressed that was working for me.

I have a really adaptable face, but when I am just being me, people always think I am younger than I am.

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

I tried to always include my children in everything that I did. I traveled with them, I brought them with me to work, I tried to balance it between work and being a mother as best as I could.

The combination of what's written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something solid and then you play.

Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?

All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins.

When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.

Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it “just being you”.

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

Running more doesn't do you any good. You've got to be successful more.

The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

It would just be nice if everybody would be nice.

One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.

I'm a very independent person, I love being alone, writing and doing music and stuff.

I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.

Feminists is something people hate above all. Nothing worse than being a woman in this [movie] business. I really believe that.

I want to be the best. That's just the human way.

Most of the things are either not communicable through human expression or they're top secret. Also I'm working on being a better person, and becoming more disciplined.

How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.