Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.
‐‐ Jean Reno
Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.
‐‐ Isla Fisher
Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some sort of an unpragmatic dialogue with my neighbors.
‐‐ Etgar Keret
Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.
‐‐ Samantha Harvey
Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, 'Wow, you're still friends with your ex, man? Really? That's weird.' I don't play that.
‐‐ Marc Anthony
Being put in a group, I hate that. I don't think anyone likes it. Everyone just wants to be their own person.
‐‐ Amber Le Bon
Being queen is overrated.
‐‐ Queen Rania of Jordan
Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he's real. It's a full gay thing and it always has been.
‐‐ Mark Morris
Being quickest in practice is nice. It builds a lot of confidence overnight.
‐‐ Robby Gordon
Being raised as an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, The Mormons, I became an Eagle scout, and after graduating high school, I went on a full-time church mission to the West Indies for 2 years.
‐‐ Shay Carl
Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.
‐‐ James Wolcott
Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.
‐‐ Linda Cardellini
Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.
‐‐ Shakira
Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
‐‐ Pat Riley
Being real is what is important.
‐‐ Gavin Rossdale
Being really good at 'learning how to learn,' as President Bill Brody of Johns Hopkins put it, will be an enormous asset in an era of rapid change and innovation, when new jobs will be phased in and old ones phased out faster than ever.
‐‐ Thomas Friedman
Being recognised by Guinness World Records in their 60th year is a real honour. It's also a real privilege for me to be positioned beside such sporting greats.
‐‐ Brian O'Driscoll
Being recognised on the street in New York is pretty surreal.
‐‐ Sophie McShera
Being recognized by Hollywood is a dream true; it's really an amazing moment.
‐‐ Thomas Langmann
Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm more interested in being an actor than a heartthrob.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom
Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.
‐‐ Rupert Penry-Jones
Being religious is quintessentially American.
‐‐ Denis McDonough
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
‐‐ Paul Tillich
Being reminded about the incredible power of God's love, and living as He intended, is the most powerful motivation to change.
‐‐ Rick Warren
Being responsible and taking care of your body is truly how you make your pay cheque, how you excel and succeed in your lifelong goals, so for me it's just an everyday lifestyle.
‐‐ Hope Solo
Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants.
‐‐ Lauren Conrad
Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.
‐‐ Greg Egan
Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.
‐‐ Jenn Proske
Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
‐‐ Frida Lyngstad
Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.
‐‐ Mark Cuban
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
‐‐ Malcolm Forbes
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
‐‐ Robert A. Heinlein
Being robbed hurts - not physically, but from what it does to your pride.
‐‐ John Boyega
Being sad and being depressed are two different things. Also, people going through depression don't look so, while someone sad will look sad. The most common reaction is, 'How can you be depressed? You have everything going for you. You are the supposed number one heroine and have a plush home, car, movies... What else do you want?'
‐‐ Deepika Padukone
Being scared is really a good thing. It's being scared of being scared that's bad. Being scared of walking through your fear, going to a place of true creativity - that's what an artist is, that's what he does. If you do that, then being inspired by your contemporaries or people from the past is really great.
‐‐ Lawrence Bender
Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded.
‐‐ Kirk Douglas
Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.
‐‐ Ayrton Senna
Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.
‐‐ Frank Bruno
Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience.
‐‐ Natalie Dormer
Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up.
‐‐ Kevin Johnson
Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe
Being self-supporting is important to me.
‐‐ Chaz Bono
Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.
‐‐ Herbie Mann
Being senior enough in the field, having enough solidity, I don't feel afraid of being marginalized.
‐‐ Elizabeth Blackburn
Being sensitive to the problem of women is just another symptom of the quality of movies: I don't think you can do anything that's very sensitive. Everything's sort of broad strokes and big gestures - adventure things that boys, guys want to see.
‐‐ Teri Garr
Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.
‐‐ James Blunt
Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.
‐‐ Michael Reagan
Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
‐‐ Patricia Marx
Being seventy is not a sin.
‐‐ Golda Meir
Being Sexiest Woman Alive definitely didn't just open all the doors for me, which I thought it would. I thought, 'This is going to be huge for me!' And it really wasn't at all.
‐‐ Jessica Biel