Being Quotes · Page 198

I'm tired of not being in the playoffs... I hate watching them on TV.

— Kemba Walker

If you see swarms of guys coming around you, you have to try and avoid being stuck on the kerb.

— Michael East

Honestly there's nothing soothing, nothing consoling like being part of a collective, dancing to music.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

At a certain moment, Yugoslavia stopped being rational, and then you end up going to war.

— Emir Kusturica

Carlos Condit does the best job of being the counterstriking guy that is very elusive.

— Tim Kennedy

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.

— Frank Gehry

Taxpayers should be able to see where their money is being spent and what impact it is having.

— David Lidington

You know what may be the oddest thing about being a star? Stars have an effect on people. It's a responsibility, and…

— Andie MacDowell

Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move…

— Kyra Sedgwick

It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to…

— Richie Benaud

I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to…

— John Edgar Wideman

“The Absolute is a finite Being containing infinity as a potential. Without nothingness, there is no infinity. Nothingness is nonexistent and, therefore,…

— Dejan Stojanovic

I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and…

— Barney Frank

It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested…

— Ezra Stiles

If somebody in a family is in service, the whole family is in service. I didn't know that. I didn't know our…

— Mary Gauthier

I remember the day of my baptism very vividly. I was baptized in the baptismal font in the Tabernacle on Temple Square.…

— James E. Faust

The Weezer 'Blue' Album is a classic. I think My Morning Jacket's 'Circuital' is a great album to have. Any Led Zeppelin…

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

There's a difference between representation and perspective. People don't want a show from a queer person or a person of color unless…

— Cole Escola

I never thought I would become amazing. I never thought I would be as great as my father. I would like to…

— Lucy Hawking

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from…

— Michael Johnson

I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks…

— Kari Matchett

This issue of border security is not about, about ethnicity. I sit there on occasion with 10 or 12 sheriffs from my…

— Henry Bonilla

I did stand-up for a long time, and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage…

— Kevin Durand

Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air.…

— Douglas Coupland

The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.

— Angus Deaton

I never thought that being a footballer I was invincible, I knew I was human.

— Gianluca Vialli

I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all, I've never had a husband.

— Francesca Annis

A major part of being successful is having a group of players who can provide leadership.

— Wayne Bridge

I do think the idea of just going to Edinburgh and being really honest would be interesting. But I have no interest…

— Tim Key

That's one of the best things about being an Indian, our sense of style allows for a much wider selection of colour.

— Shriya Saran

I was one step away from getting my life taken away, whether it was life in prison or being dead on the…

— Richard Cabral

This idea of me being anti-Semitic is the most ludicrous of them all.

— Linda Sarsour

My priority is being able to move and breathe the most freely on stage.

— Gracie Abrams

U2 and Sinead O'Connor - I haven't a clue why we're compared to them. Apart from us all being Irish, we've nothing…

— Dolores O'Riordan

Johnny Knoxville went from struggling to pay his rent to being on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' in the course of, like,…

— Spike Jonze

Although early on, I did not think of showbiz, I dreamed of being on TV and becoming a celebrity.

— Srinidhi Shetty

We have a strong tradition in our country of senior leaders being apolitical, nonpartisan.

— Joseph Dunford

I'm just trying to humanise situations and represent voices that aren't being represented.

— Kano

Whenever we do wire work, we do look like babies just being, like, dangled.

— Natasia Demetriou

I like being able to talk about work while we're making dinner. I'd rather discuss it at that moment while it's fresh.

— Valerie Faris