Being Quotes · Page 205

All we lived for was playing and being out on the road. That was our dream, and it came true.

— Gary Rossington

I want creators quitting their part-time jobs and being creative for a living.

— Jack Conte

Being a part of the 'Twilight' phenomenon was life-changing; there is a whole other world of 'Twilight' fandom!

— Kirsten Prout

At the end of the day, dividends are not being paid with margins; dividends are paid with earnings per share.

— Joe Kaeser

It's never bad to be liked, and who doesn't feel good being liked, but that can't be your end game goal.

— Jessica Capshaw

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.

— Paul Weller

I was offered a film, two web shows and two TV shows, but I'm happy being a singer.

— Rahul Vaidya

You get used to cameras being with you 24/7, but you have to be prepared for people to have an opinion.

— Artem Chigvintsev

A major part of being prepared is having a plan. Local calls don't always work in the immediate vicinity of a disaster,…

— Mike Crapo

I used to watch Juninho's free-kicks without being able to figure out how he hit them. I tried and tried until, eventually,…

— Andrea Pirlo

It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing,…

— Brad Garrett

The career span for athletes is very short-lived. So you aren't being, perhaps, the smartest person if you don't take care of…

— Benson Henderson

When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're…

— William Shatner

For me, there's always been a question of being trans and doing trans. Whether or not you're living as a trans woman,…

— Torrey Peters

Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it…

— Kyle Chandler

What kind of pupil was I? Well, I was a swot, but I was allowed to be without any ill effects by…

— Peter Higgs

AT&T sucks. There's no excuse for being in downtown Los Angeles, and your phone loses service. That's ridiculous.

— Blake Shelton

I like being out there. I've done Snowdon, walked a bit of the Cleveland Way, did some of the Coast to Coast.

— Nigel Pearson

Being able to be one of the headline bands on Warped Tour was a dream I had since I was in middle…

— Andy Biersack

One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Well, like every kid playing basketball, I dreamed of being an NBA player.

— Maverick Carter

The hardest thing about being on the road is not being with my animals.

— Brandi Carlile

You could literally be perfect and people would still hate you, for being perfect.

— Ryan Lochte

A nanny, by being the child's doughty defender, may put sensitive noses out of joint.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

— Vladimir Nabokov

You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in…

— Jerry Reinsdorf

As a child, my mother had instilled in me a feeling of being born for a purpose.

— Shukla Bose

I think being gay has resulted in gay characters standing front and center in all of my work.

— Stephen Karam

It's not just about being free to marry who you want, you now want to have men using women's bathrooms.

— Kemi Badenoch

The thing is that when you make a film, it is such an intense experience. It's like being married.

— Mani Ratnam

Patriotism has debilitating effects on the people who suffer from it.

— Ilkin Santak

Every firing happens differently except in this one respect: the person being fired can't believe how fast it happens.

— Glenn Kelman

I woke up famous for about a minute, then stopped being famous again.

— Rachael Stirling

I see Jughead as being generally this really rational dude, this anchor of sensibility in a world of boy/girl-crazy friends.

— Ryan North

Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged…

— Bill Murray

Being told that your child will be born with HLHS is absolutely heartbreaking.

— Greg Olsen

I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being…

— John Boyne

I think athletes are, in general, tired of so much of their persona being controlled by the media.

— Jemele Hill

Being completely neutral, Joe Biden would be all but impossible for Trump to beat.

— John Fetterman

Being an educated consumer is the best way to shop for nutritious, disease-preventing foods.

— Margaret Cuomo