Being Quotes · Page 193

There's a difference between being a realist and a pessimist and an optimist. I think I'm way more of a realist.

— Quinta Brunson

The mid '70s was the golden age. A lot of things were being born on the street then, and there was a…

— Tom Noddy

Being injured for nine months, it felt like a breeze to me mentally - nothing was really too difficult.

— Callum Wilson

Less land is being converted into agriculture globally in part because farmers are growing more food on less land.

— Michael Shellenberger

I always dreamed about getting on TV and being part of a team - a funny ensemble.

— D'Arcy Carden

Being able to stay with a character over the course of years is a gift.

— Jennifer Hale

Being able to be dry in a second language is almost the last thing you learn.

— Alicia Vikander

Because I'm such a die-hard New Yorker, I was skeptical of Montreal being a New York double.

— Meghann Fahy

I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who…

— John Pomfret

I'd like to continue being involved with issues that animated my time as attorney general - criminal-justice reform and civil rights especially.…

— Eric Holder

When I was little, all I could think about was just being on some kind of stage, whether it be on a…

— Mj Rodriguez

I do revel slightly in the fact that I am what I am - an English, middle-class, public-school-educated bloke. There is a…

— Elliot Cowan

I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch…

— Bob Livingston

New York is a great place to be as an unrepresented actor because there are so many 'open auditions' that you can…

— Catherine Mary Stewart

In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a…

— FKA twigs

Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children…

— Wallace Shawn

I think, in a large way, it's, 'OK, you've knelt; you've made your point.' But I don't necessarily feel like that. I…

— Megan Rapinoe

During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like…

— Sean Penn

As a player on the bench, you become like a fan really. You're sitting there shouting 'why did he do that?' or…

— Adebayo Akinfenwa

Feminists who say that I switched sides because I am an opportunist should know that exactly the opposite is true. It's cost…

— Warren Farrell

Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

During a round, unless the crowd is quiet, which a lot of times it isn't in my fights, you're standing there and…

— Travis Browne

When I first met Salman Butt, he was a senior player, and he was a star for Pakistan, and I was a…

— Mohammad Amir

We definitely get respect as far as the musicianship, working hard and being road dogs.

— Hank Williams III

Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.

— J. August Richards

The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind.

— Anna Todd

The big upside to being captain is it's a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.

— Brian O'Driscoll

Being stubborn is not an asset. You have to be able to see things through other people's eyes.

— Drew Scott

With my grey hair and workaholic attitude, I can't imagine being hot by any standard.

— Vikram Bhatt

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

— David Crosby

I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long…

— Tim O'Reilly

I am very open with regards to emotion and really being honest with yourself for how you are feeling.

— Judi Love

I'm a writer. I'm naturally introverted, so being the public face of something, I don't think I do it well.

— Kevin Kwan

Being at Stanford really opens your eyes to the world that's out there.

— Devon Cajuste

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

— William De Morgan

In this league, it's all about being close to 100 percent on game day.

— Adam Thielen

I can't disappear. I come from a family of beautiful women, strong women - and 'strong' defined by being themselves.

— Mara Brock Akil

There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!

— Douglas Wood

I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type.

— Kelsey Grammer