Being Quotes · Page 181

My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

— Kanye West

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

— Kris Jenner

I don't worry about being bothered by the media. Either I'm going to talk or not talk.

— Robert Horry

Family is created to grow the Overman, not to continue the progeny; progeny is continued by the Overman anyway.

— Ilkin Santak

Being a part of 'Hamilton' is remarkably special. It's a very powerful show that has spectacular emotional and political relevance.

— Jordan Fisher

I like being part of a film scene where the person at the top is a really good person.

— Emily Hampshire

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.

— Domenico Dolce

I'd probably do something that involved music, a booking agent or working at a label, if not being an actual musician.

— Montaigne

When I was a toddler, I fell ill with diphtheritic croup and was taken to an isolation unit. One of my earliest…

— Vera Lynn

I think there is a lot of activism and energy from people all over America, and some of them are being represented…

— Ted Lieu

On the movie side of things, the difficulties come with so few movies being made, and when they are, it seems that…

— Jim Rash

I'm totally open to it being a movie or a television series or whatever, but truthfully, if no one wants to do…

— Brian K. Vaughan

I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris…

— Bill Bruford

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I…

— Chris Parnell

I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

The sixth man, the position, I don't have a problem with, but the award - it's not that it's not important, but…

— Andre Iguodala

Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black…

— Kevin Hart

There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wearing a beret and drinking…

— Eleanor Catton

Being able to hear an artist and emulate them has been a huge part of being successful as a producer and co-writer.…

— Finneas

“Man is not to direct or to be directed anymore than a tree or a cloud or a stone Man is not…

— Kenneth Patchen

Prior to 'The Shield,' basic cable was just a wasteland of reruns and NASCAR. When we came along, I think there was…

— Michael Chiklis

Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless…

— Bryan Burrough

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look…

— John Grisham

In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to…

— John P. Kotter

One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.

— Mayim Bialik

As an actor, the toughest thing is being subject to circumstance. Meaning: What scripts are out there that are available?

— Paul Dano

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the…

— Thomas Ligotti

I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look…

— Wallace Shawn

The thing about being an Indian person is that you feel most at home with your own people.

— Winona LaDuke

I'm happy with being white. I'm fine with being white. I feel zero shame whatsoever in being white.

— Lauren Southern

Being sincere and true to yourself is a scary thing but, ultimately, a rewarding one.

— Paul Rust

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

— Ray Bradbury

There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a celebrity.

— Peter Dinklage

I never felt bad about being lumped in with other Seattle bands. I thought it was great.

— Chris Cornell

It's about being a voice in the community. There's so many ways to be a voice, and that's what I'm figuring out.

— Richard Cabral

I always dreamed of doing this, being able to do track and field and the NFL at the same time.

— Marquise Goodwin

I know that, me being from Sudan and London, it's a big honour to have even made it to the NBA.

— Luol Deng

I never thought that I would ever actually get to make films. Being from Greece, it wasn't really a reality.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix.

— Sebastian Bach

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

— Ben Mendelsohn