Being Quotes · Page 289

I had the most incredible experience of my life being signed to Cash Money.

— Jay Sean

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help…

— Edward Snowden

When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just…

— Carl Weathers

Being offered the role in the Jackie Chan film was amazing. I got to do a fight scene with Jackie Chan.

— Eve Torres

I did Merv Griffin's show as a singer, and at the end of the show he asked me if I would be…

— Chuck Woolery

Most times, lyrics are the last thing I listen to, being a musician.

— Michael McDonald

I realized I could do singing impressions when I was 12 years old, first being Britney Spears.

— Melissa Villasenor

I love being an actor, especially in movies, because you get to be someone else.

— Mason Cook

It is better to kill the barbarian during his coming than to tell your children that there was culture, but the barbarians…

— Ilkin Santak

One of the greatest rebels, who I really admire: Christ. He was a rebel. He ended up being crucified. He was a…

— Hugo Chavez

I've always been really opinionated, and mixed with being really open hearted, open to people shifting what I think all the time,…

— Alanis Morissette

I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm…

— Scott Turow

What was great about Fischer is that when he became world champion is that chess was being covered everywhere. It was in…

— Hikaru Nakamura

I found my luck in Leipzig. We achieved the goal of playing internationally much faster than we had intended. There are certainly…

— Ralph Hasenhuttl

Being exposed to the diversity of music I was as a kid made me the actor I am today. As an actor,…

— Will Chase

We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set…

— Alice Morse Earle

Pretty much all I'm doing during an eating contest is being uncomfortable and not forgetting to breathe.

— Joey Chestnut

I learned a lot from being in hell. I learned discipline. I learned that I choose what to put in my body.

— Bernard Hopkins

I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.

— Maika Monroe

For me, being able to go anywhere you want, with an element of precision and control, has been the goal.

— Paul Parker

I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.

— Ari Graynor

In retrospect, Tom being my partner affected my feelings on having kids a lot more than I thought it did.

— Ariana Madix

Your head is spinning a little bit from being in the NBA your first two to three years, all you're trying to…

— Kevin Huerter

When I stopped racing, I kept being asked to comment on diversity in the sport but I really felt I had done…

— Susie Wolff

“We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtful whether they think…

— John Cowper Powys

Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.

— Megan Fox

I'm very grateful to being dyslexic and I owe my career to being dyslexic.

— Charley Boorman

Landon Donovan has always been about being the focal point of the team.

— Steve Nicol

It is really interesting to change your hair color after being blond your entire life.

— Ross Lynch

Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.

— Jimmy Fallon

I'm used to people having an opinion and me being under a microscope.

— Porsha Williams

Because I'm black, people think I'm not capable of being delicate, only athletic.

— Michaela DePrince

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put…

— LZ Granderson

It's very hard to balance being there for somebody else and taking care of yourself.

— Jennifer Grey

I'd always lived with people - my family, or had people living with me, because I'd never liked being on my own.

— Elton John

I've been accused, many times, as a writer/director, of my pace being too leisurely and too long.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing…

— Vincent Cassel

Mano Menezes is a fantastic coach, but Scolari is a fantastic coach, too, as well as being more experienced.

— David Luiz

I love westerns. It's guys being guys. There's no room for frilly stuff.

— Jason Statham

I have never been afraid of being in charge, whether I have been coach, manager or caretaker.

— Chris Hughton