All Quotes

Being biracial is so much a part of who I am that it's almost, 'Let it go already.' It's intrinsic to me. I think a lot of my fans relate to me because they felt different.
‐‐ Mariah Carey

Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.
‐‐ Halle Berry

Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.
‐‐ Halsey

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.
‐‐ Cassandra Wilson

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
‐‐ Steven Biko

Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
‐‐ Mara Brock Akil

Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.
‐‐ Rachel Johnson

Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
‐‐ Rachel Johnson

Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
‐‐ Damian Marley

Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
‐‐ Dan Malloy

Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
‐‐ Rachel Johnson

Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself.
‐‐ Dyan Cannon

Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.
‐‐ Carre Otis

Being born and raised in Chicago made me tough. It made me strong. I feel like I can deal with anything. I truly believe that in my heart.
‐‐ Shani Davis

Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to fall in love with sci-fi. It was one of my first literary loves, as a matter of fact.
‐‐ Rick Yancey

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.
‐‐ Andres Serrano

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
‐‐ E. Stanley Jones

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
‐‐ Hans Christian Andersen

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
‐‐ Arthur Wellesley

Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.
‐‐ Maria Conchita Alonso

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.
‐‐ Tessanne Chin

Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.
‐‐ Chely Wright

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.
‐‐ John Lydon

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
‐‐ Andy Warhol

Being born white in South Africa or anywhere in the empire and Commonwealth automatically conferred this special status. You had no problem finding a place to live, a job, trade union membership, access to social services. Being white, speaking English, you were accepted as English, entitled to all the rights of citizenship.
‐‐ Peter Abrahams

Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.
‐‐ Lee Van Cleef

Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling.
‐‐ Heston Blumenthal

Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.
‐‐ Banks

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
‐‐ Bear Grylls

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.
‐‐ Emilie Autumn

Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.
‐‐ James E. Faust

Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.
‐‐ Mark Davis

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Being British, we tend to think of ourselves as America's best friend. And as your best friend, that gives us a little bit of license to point out things that could have been handled better.
‐‐ Philip Kerr

Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.
‐‐ Mike Todd

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

Being bullied is something I experienced in school, and it is not fun.
‐‐ Bridgit Mendler

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
‐‐ Thomas A. Edison

Being busy with work, and as a mum, I'm a big fan of online shopping.
‐‐ Kirsty Gallacher

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live.
‐‐ Isaac Rosenberg

Being by the ocean is the greatest thing.
‐‐ Genesis Rodriguez

Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
‐‐ Talib Kweli

Being called a dance photographer makes me bristle. You might say that dance is my landscape. The root of my interest is movement or, rather, how movement can be interpreted photographically, and dance provides a perfect opportunity for this.
‐‐ Lois Greenfield

Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.
‐‐ Tim Ferriss

Being called a 'music legend' is a very funny thing. It's nice to know that my work has been appreciated and that people have given me that status. On a personal level, however, I can't think about it too much. It means a lot... but then it doesn't.
‐‐ Chris Squire

Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him... the better off we all are.
‐‐ Edward Snowden

Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.
‐‐ Talib Kweli

Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.
‐‐ Margaret Cho

Being Canadian and from Winnipeg, I have the spirit of a dreamer because of the cold, and being in the basement thinking of possibilities of where else I can be in the world, in a good way!
‐‐ Sarah Carter