All Quotes

Being an athlete in a cold-weather sport is really difficult to deal with the asthma.
‐‐ Charlie White

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.
‐‐ Kristi Yamaguchi

Being an athlete, you try to get protein.
‐‐ Ronda Rousey

Being an Australian that's been No. 1 in the world back home playing in Australia, that's a pretty cool moment to have.
‐‐ Jason Day

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I feel like taking the day off, I do it. Plus, I get to make up silly stories and draw pictures all day.
‐‐ Dav Pilkey

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.
‐‐ Lauren Myracle

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.
‐‐ Joseph Kanon

Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion.
‐‐ Kevin O'Leary

Being an entertainer includes knowing how to connect with an audience.
‐‐ Joe Nichols

Being an entrepreneur is a mindset. You have to see things as opportunities all the time. I like to do interviews. I like to push people on certain topics. I like to dig into the stories where there's not necessarily a right or wrong answer.
‐‐ Soledad O'Brien

Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.
‐‐ Fred Wilson

Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.
‐‐ Gautam Adani

Being an entrepreneur is tough. Really, really tough.
‐‐ David S. Rose

Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.
‐‐ Ciputra

Being an environmentalist isn't all about doom and gloom.
‐‐ David Suzuki

Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

Being an ex-child star is not a given.
‐‐ Danny Bonaduce

Being an executive producer allows me the opportunity to create original content, and I can't wait to show my fans what we have in store on 'Kocktails with Khloe.'
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian

Being an impatient guy, even off the field, I would always look to score runs and score them quickly. Sometimes I panic if runs are not coming.
‐‐ Gautam Gambhir

Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.
‐‐ Parker Posey

Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.
‐‐ Iris Apfel

Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality. I might have a Scotch to keep me going, but I like to be as awake and as alert as possible.
‐‐ Elliot Perlman

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
‐‐ Janis Joplin

Being an Israeli is to know that you have risen from the ashes of those who were killed and knowing you have a responsibility for the coming generations.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

Being an M.C. is all about just going for the throat.
‐‐ Big Boi

Being an MP is not a desperately hard life, like going down the pit or working in the steelworks - with which I am all too familiar, having been brought up in the city of Sheffield; and it certainly isn't badly paid compared with any of my constituents.
‐‐ David Blunkett

Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.
‐‐ Samantha Power

Being an offensive lineman, you always have the mindset of being an unsung hero - a lot of the people who look at the game follow the ball.
‐‐ D'Brickashaw Ferguson

Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.
‐‐ Malcolm X

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
‐‐ Edna Ferber

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
‐‐ Alex North

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.
‐‐ Debi Thomas

Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.
‐‐ Russell Mark

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
‐‐ Fannie Flagg

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
‐‐ Tom Hardy

Being an only child is a disease in itself.
‐‐ G. Stanley Hall

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.
‐‐ Heber J. Grant

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.
‐‐ Kin Hubbard

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.
‐‐ Chris Crutcher

Being an uncle brings me utter joy.
‐‐ Russell Tovey

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.
‐‐ Martin Heidegger

Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.
‐‐ Mireille Guiliano

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.
‐‐ Koo Stark

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.
‐‐ Enrique Iglesias

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.
‐‐ John Henry Carver

Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at predicting what's going to happen in a church service.
‐‐ Francis Chan

Being around all the great names of the game at a young age because they were my heroes; the fact this meant so much to Canada. It was just an incredible thing to be a part of.
‐‐ Marcel Dionne

Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.
‐‐ Alice Greczyn