Being Quotes · Page 271

In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.

— Liz Truss

It's not only about playing well, it is about being part of a winning team.

— Rodri

Like a lot of girls, even I have this dream of being in the movies, and like any actor, I need to…

— Karishma Tanna

I thought about being an actor, and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do just to…

— Marti Noxon

When I was 19 or 20, the way I was an activist was by regularly meeting with groups, going to protests, and…

— Laura Jane Grace

The idea of being a designer is always something that has intrigued me.

— Alexis Ren

Being able to put the film out there that I did and prove that I can be a starter in this league,…

— Adam Thielen

Fame made me insecure and insular. I wanted to run away from being me.

— Lisa Stansfield

At my shows you have time to relax, time to just enjoy something really dumb, time to laugh at something that's weird…

— Reggie Watts

People have always tut-tutted about actors stepping out of line politically. And I can sort of see it because what you've got…

— Joanna Lumley

I am telling you that I am very grateful and am so proud of you for being a symbolic generation that is…

— Hosni Mubarak

Being severely dyslexic meant I was always behind with schoolwork. I struggled at mainstream school but as soon as I went to…

— Dylan Llewellyn

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the…

— Richard Branson

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you…

— Francis Ford Coppola

Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being…

— Anthony Browne

Despite outsiders being invited to write software, the iPhone thus remains tightly tethered to its vendor - the way that the Kindle…

— Jonathan Zittrain

Being mixed race in Britain in the '80s and '90s, there just weren't loads of people who looked like me.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Restaurants should be democratic; you shouldn't be made to feel privileged for getting a table or being lectured by the waiter.

— Marco Pierre White

The force for change I represent is of course from being a mixed-race ballerina.

— Francesca Hayward

Growing up in Miami, being Cuban is integrated into our culture. When we greet anyone, we give them a kiss on the…

— Lauren Jauregui

I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.

— Bruce Robinson

Warhol was proof that you can be revolutionary without being militant.

— Maurizio Cattelan

What drew me into being an actor was that I never got cast in the school plays - and it used to…

— Naseeruddin Shah

The only way of the regular development is: thesis - antithesis - synthesis. Everything else is just a chimera.

— Ilkin Santak

I like being out on a limb and not know what we're doing and why: just deal with it, the mayhem, you…

— Johan Renck

It's a great thing about being pregnant - you don't need excuses to pee or to eat.

— Angelina Jolie

I had an operation on my cornea when I was little, and remember being deeply enamoured with the team who looked after…

— Sue Perkins

I love creating things and I feel like that's what acting is. It's just being creative.

— Lainey Wilson

I grew up having all the Dolce & Gabbana campaigns on the walls of my teenage bedroom, and I was dreaming of…

— Bianca Balti

I've always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that.

— Robert Wise

In Europe, being fast, being strong, playing only with your quality, you are going to struggle against teams that prepare.

— Patrice Evra

One of the things that I like to pride myself on is being the guy who sees the game through till the…

— Jos Buttler

Things have to touch me as a human being. I do films that touch my heart.

— Varun Dhawan

Being born was the most influential thing that's ever happened to me, for myself.

— Jaden Smith

My pictures of 'Oliver Twist' and 'A Boy in Flanders' are being used as school lessons.

— Jackie Coogan

Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it.

— Lizz Wright

I do like toilets as concepts. Being a toilet is a job that's inherently demeaning, so humanising that is exciting to me.

— Julio Torres

Men want children later, but women can't rely on being able to. So I'm all for scientific advances and the help they…

— Mariella Frostrup

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

— Fidel Castro

Haverford was there for me and taught me what it meant to be a human being.

— Howard Lutnick