Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.
‐‐ Mark Teixeira
Being from Boston, I think we have to get the 'Good Will Hunting' poster tattooed on our backs when we're like 16 or 17; it's just a rite of passage. That movie is so, so, so huge.
‐‐ John Krasinski
Being from Iowa, I can tell you that Vegas is not normal.
‐‐ Dave Keuning
Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.
‐‐ Yael Naim
Being from New York, everybody's a point guard. Even when you play in the park, you've got to know how to handle the ball. If you can't handle the ball, you can't really play.
‐‐ Joakim Noah
Being from New York, if you're gay, you're gay. I think it's important that if you are gay, you not be afraid to say who you are.
‐‐ Sue Wicks
Being from New York, there's three things you know about Hollywood. You know about the Hollywood sign, Sunset Strip and Hollywood Boulevard with the stars.
‐‐ Sean Combs
Being from North Carolina, it's kind of slow-paced. There's not too much going on there, whereas in New Orleans, there's always something going on. I just love all the people, going out to dinner and enjoying anything I want.
‐‐ Chris Paul
Being from Oakland, you see a lot of thing. You see friends turn on friends all the time. You see family turn on family.
‐‐ Marshawn Lynch
Being from Russia, I respect all of the comic books American people love. We do follow it a lot.
‐‐ Svetlana Khodchenkova
Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.
‐‐ Theo Rossi
Being from Texas, acting or music isn't really a thing to do.
‐‐ Tony Oller
Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with.
‐‐ Jensen Ackles
Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.
‐‐ Angie Everhart
Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones.
‐‐ Joe Bastianich
Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.
‐‐ Guy Finley
Being fundamentally decent and honest and willing to put others before yourself - that's necessary for being an effective policymaker.
‐‐ Jake Sullivan
Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.
‐‐ Nick Wechsler
Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach
Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.
‐‐ Faith Prince
Being funny is everything to me.
‐‐ Allison Jones
Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.
‐‐ John Krasinski
Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan
Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
‐‐ Hank Azaria
Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.
‐‐ Rupert Everett
Being gay doesn't take your brain away or exclude me from having the same attributes as anyone else.
‐‐ Don Lemon
Being gay has nothing to do with the three gold medals or the three MVPs or the four championships I've won. I'm still the same person. I'm Sheryl.
‐‐ Sheryl Swoopes
Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
‐‐ Damon Galgut
Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life.
‐‐ James McGreevey
Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents.
‐‐ Alice Dreger
Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton
Being gay is nothing but another way to live your life.
‐‐ Connor Paolo
Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
‐‐ Damon Galgut
Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse.
‐‐ Joe Bastianich
Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.
‐‐ Pete Seeger
Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.
‐‐ David Schwimmer
Being German, I think we don't really express a lot of things.
‐‐ Diane Kruger
Being gifted needs courage.
‐‐ Georg Brandes
Being given a terrible piece of information shouldn't ruin the interactions you have with the people around you or mean that you can't become something, even if it's not the idea of what you thought you were going to be.
‐‐ Rose McIver
Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong.
‐‐ Catherine Zeta-Jones
Being God would be the ultimate.
‐‐ Macy Gray
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
‐‐ Andy Warhol
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
‐‐ Iris Murdoch
Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.
‐‐ Christine Pelosi
'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.
‐‐ Naveen Jain
Being green means preventing waste.
‐‐ Kevin Plank
Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.
‐‐ Paris Hilton
Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.
‐‐ Gina Rodriguez
Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
‐‐ Pamela Anderson