Being Quotes

If you know how much reality is getting in, then you know a great deal about what a person sees to be true.

I'm not sure I enjoyed doing [Gigi Does It]. I'm cool with just being an actor. If anything, I learned to be proud of being an actor.

The general election's taking place today in Iraq, so I guess that means we're one step closer to being there for another 10 years.

Because what's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?

Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.

Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.

You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

The process of just being in front of people, having to stand up for your ideas, and ask - and then ask people for money, which is a very hard thing to do.

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.

And, again, I'm the first one to say that I'm not going be successful at everything.

As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.

Antidepressants. The thought of this girl actually being depressed made me want to grab the whole planet and throw it into the sun. Well, more than usual anyway.

In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.

I'm just being the artist that I would have loved if I was a child.

That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame.

The thing that drives me more than anything else is being a father.

While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.

The principals in elegantly simple. We learn to love by being loved, we learn gentleness by being gentled, we learn to be graceful by experiencing the feeling of grace.

There is not one life that doesn’t add tremendous value to the whole. Somewhere inside of us we know this to be true; we hear the call to head in the direction of this bigger life.

The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people.

The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you

I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

Stop attaching so much weight to being right. In the grand scheme of things, being right is insignificant compared with being happy.

Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.

An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

NO one deserves anything less than being loved.

My tattoos say "Stay strong." "Stay" on one wrist and "strong" on the other. I'm able to look at them and be thankful for being alive.

Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.

I want things to be the best they can be I want greatness.

Time And well being are two valuable belongings that we do not acknowledge and respect till they've been depleted.

Be positive about the future. The road ahead will be worth it!

I love being a dad. Basically it's the most gratifying, rewarding relationship in life. But, at the same time, it certainly is the most challenging.

I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.

I'm just saying I'm being myself, and people understand that.

Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you.

You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

You know, me winning two gold medals, going for a third one, that's nice. But being there with Mark and my sister, and my brother being the coach, it's a dream come true. It's going to be awesome.

We can only be responsible for what we ourselves do.

I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.

One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your nervous breakdown, being irresponsible about money.

I became a boat captain because I loved the water and had been on a boat since I was eight. I captained the boat by myself because I liked being alone.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

I'm not quite as much of a curmudgeon being old. I'm not cantankerous. But otherwise, I'm about the same.

I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

Just being from New York, that's something that you do - knowing how to dress.