Being Quotes · Page 291

I wanted to connect to audiences' intelligence, focused on being a dependable actor and not a star.

— Arjun Mathur

There's a loss of autonomy that comes from not being able to own the wealth you've earned.

— Monica Johnson

I am not vindictive, but very forgiving. Despite being wronged, I never took revenge on anyone.

— Rituparna Sengupta

One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I like being a chameleon and doing things that are just so different that people will be like, 'Oh, that's him?'

— Corey Hawkins

Being a parent is beautiful chaos and not at all like how you imagine.

— Kathryn Hahn

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

— Amanda Palmer

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

— Lois Lowry

One of the things I've told men over and over and over and over is if you're being rejected by all the…

— Jordan Peterson

I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much…

— Kara Swisher

Before and after my debut, I've helped out other manga artists from time to time, but I have no experience of being…

— Natsuki Takaya

A lot of cis people feel unable to discuss being attracted to trans women, and worry that some people will think they…

— Rebecca Root

Being driven helps; if you look at any athlete or entertainer, they're all going to come to times where, if it's handed…

— Ethan Carter III

I get told off by my mum for being a bit rough on the pitch. I'm in the referee's ear a lot…

— Ivan Toney

With acting, you have to become someone else. That's the fun part of it for me - to step outside of yourself…

— Jimmy Cliff

Being in The Fall isn't like being in another group. It isn't a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to…

— Mark E. Smith

Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.

— Carl Honore

Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it.

— Big Sean

The moment you decided to transcend into your higher level of Being, ordinary people will think of you as being crazy or…

— Ces Peta

There's a difference in being opinionated and judgmental; I'm still trying to figure out what that fine line is - I think…

— India Arie

The fact is, it wasn't enjoyable being in secondary school. I was a weird kid.

— Benjamin Clementine

Childbirth and being pregnant is something that I've always wanted. I feel like you feel the most feminine; you look the most…

— Gigi Gorgeous

Even though I'm still doing the singing entrances, with promos and backstages, I was being me as a performer.

— Aiden English

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy…

— Ross Perot

Being a dad comes with all of the love and all of the care and the protection that we're supposed to provide…

— Ray J

The feeling of being able to do something for your own country is unmatchable.

— Shankar Mahadevan

Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.

— Fulton J. Sheen

I feel as though there's a lot invested in my background in being an outsider.

— Claire Messud

Being without employment and training at a young age means starting out on a back-foot.

— Nick Boles

A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or…

— Penelope Keith

A lot of people on the business side are really serious. But I like being able to mix content that's me having…

— Justin Kan

After getting dropped from the Australian team, for me it was always just about being the team, it doesn't matter where I…

— Michael Clarke

The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy.

— Ratan Tata

I think everyone knows how much of a joint effort being in politics is. It requires all kinds of sacrifices and all…

— Kerry Healey

I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that…

— Hugh Grant

Being a major-league baseball player is tough, so whenever you say 'face of the franchise,' I'm not trying to be that.

— Billy Butler

I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's…

— Andrew Buchan

Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps.

— Pierce Brosnan

“The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest divisible unit.”

— George Sheehan

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!

— Kathleen Sebelius