All Quotes

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
‐‐ Rita Dove

Being truthful is a necessity because when I'm not being truthful it takes a toll on me. I don't have any room for it in my life. I don't have an across-the-board opinion on honesty in relationships. But for me, personally, it's paramount.
‐‐ Dax Shepard

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.
‐‐ Debi Mazar

Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
‐‐ Owain Yeoman

Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.
‐‐ Jessa Gamble

Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.
‐‐ Ronan Farrow

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
‐‐ Jodie Foster

Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if you've truly lived through it.
‐‐ Mika Brzezinski

Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.
‐‐ Philip Seymour Hoffman

Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

Being unprepared heightens nerves.
‐‐ James Galway

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.
‐‐ John C. Reilly

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
‐‐ Mother Teresa

Being upbeat is the key to life.
‐‐ David Frost

Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.
‐‐ Iain McGilchrist

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.
‐‐ Peter Hammill

Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment.
‐‐ Sarah Brightman

Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don't align with my values.
‐‐ Cory Booker

Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.
‐‐ Victoria Moran

Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.
‐‐ Victoria Moran

Being vegan just gives you such great karma.
‐‐ Alicia Silverstone

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.
‐‐ Colin Wilson

Being very, very honest, I've watched more Bill Clinton speeches than stand-up specials. Steve Jobs commencements. They're just great orators. I love people who boldly share their point of view.
‐‐ Jerrod Carmichael

Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them.
‐‐ Logan Marshall-Green

Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

Being web video 'experts'/'pioneers,' whatever you may want to call us, has us always thinking about content that is outside the box, inherently viral in itself and good for web video audiences, as you can't just put out a good piece of content and expect it to be seen.
‐‐ Benny Fine

Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
‐‐ Iris Apfel

Being whip is working with members, educating them, and trying to move legislation forward.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy

Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
‐‐ Dick Gregory

Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.
‐‐ Steven Amsterdam

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
‐‐ Casey Stengel

Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting - he's like a rock star unto himself!
‐‐ Lawrence Bender

Being with all those great bowlers was the greatest three days I ever had.
‐‐ Don Johnson

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

Being with my family is my highest priority.
‐‐ Bethenny Frankel

Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.
‐‐ Keith Urban

Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.
‐‐ Shooter Jennings

Being with my kids is the best, most fun thing; it's a privilege.
‐‐ Chris Rock

Being with nature opens us up to divine experience.
‐‐ James Redfield

Being with Prince and the New Power Generation, I was very influenced by those sounds, and now I'm more than ready to show that side of me with confidence.
‐‐ Liv Warfield

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.
‐‐ Patricia Cornwell

Being worshipped is a horrible experience.
‐‐ John Fahey

Being wrong on facts, that's something you have a real responsibility to correct. But being wrong in the fun sports way is part of the interplay.
‐‐ Joe Posnanski

Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.
‐‐ Lauryn Hill

Being young is an advantage. You've grown up with games as the dominant entertainment. You have a lot of experience of video games. So what do you want to see that's not been done? Innovation is really low cost for you. You can afford to take risks and fail to execute new ideas.
‐‐ Kim Swift