All Quotes

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