Being Quotes · Page 249

Life is hard enough without being worried about the smallest interaction with a public servant.

— Tyler Childers

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

— Jeanette Winterson

Some of my fondest memories are of being in a van. It can be exhausting, but many adventures can be had.

— Cindy Wilson

I am being very honest when I say I have the highest regard for Amitabhji.

— Shatrughan Sinha

I can finish a show and walk through the audience without being recognized.

— Lou Barlow

Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.

— Bozoma Saint John

If you had to say in one sentence what being Jewish means, it is being able to make fun of yourself Jewishly.

— Howard Jacobson

But as an actor, you spend the majority of your life being rejected.

— Douglas Henshall

Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines…

— Jill Lepore

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And…

— Mary McDonnell

For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for…

— A. S. Byatt

What made Strapping Young Lad important, at least to me, was I was being honest about whatever was important to me at…

— Devin Townsend

I'm not, you know, the guy with the biggest game or the flashy shots. But, you know, just being steady, playing every…

— Casper Ruud

Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being…

— Simon Van Booy

I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then…

— Douglas Coupland

Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really…

— Andrew Rannells

Essentially, for me, the whole point of being a chef is to have your own restaurant.

— Ranveer Brar

It's all about being sharp and not taking too much damage. That's always the game plan.

— Robbie Lawler

Being the first-ever NXT U.K. women's champion was just an absolute honor and privilege in itself.

— Rhea Ripley

There is nothing harder for me than to sit at the sideline, not being able to be productive.

— Yolanda Hadid

I like being on a plane with no phone service because I get so much work done.

— Pramila Jayapal

I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.

— Angela Ahrendts

I don't know any other way of doing a show besides being completely consumed by it and the character.

— Shefali Shah

I sometimes feel tired. But there are so many reasons for being tired.

— Ehud Olmert

When you fall into a midseason slot, you have the sort of blessing of not being on television while you shoot most…

— Stark Sands

Just being ready physically to be able to withstand a whole 162 games on your body. I know it's not easy.

— Xander Bogaerts

In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.

— Veruschka von Lehndorff

I want to get away from that perception of being the Southampton academy boy. That's not what I want to be any…

— James Ward-Prowse

With me harping on about girls being as strong as boys, I had to prove it.

— Georgia Toffolo

I realize I'm blessed to have the luxury of being a full-time writer. Not many people have that.

— Rupi Kaur

I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.

— Clive Owen

So Putin is not the dictator that he's often accused of being. He has to be very sensitive to public opinion.

— Fiona Hill

Being healthy and living a healthy lifestyle have always been very important to me.

— Stacy Keibler

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having…

— Lando Norris

The Republican Party has a reputation for being the party of big business, but you wouldn't think that if you saw the…

— Dan Bongino

Being Australian is a lot more than saying 'g'day mate' and 'throw a shrimp on the Barbie.'

— Patty Mills

I don't think I'm being forced to grow up too fast; I would rather people treat me like an adult.

— Lauren Alaina

In the end, success in a shoot-out is being able to perform a particular skill under pressure.

— Gareth Southgate

I consider it, the life of being a comedian - they have a right to boo me.

— Nish Kumar

There is very, very little chance of bespoke transitional arrangements being negotiated at the same time as the rest of Article 50.

— Keir Starmer