Being Quotations | Page 3

The objective of a referee is not to get mentioned. I tell a lot of young referees that not being mentioned is king. If you can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game.

I seem to be able to get along with anybody when I work because I really enjoy being there.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you'll achieve it.

If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy!

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

What I love about my husband is that he really allows me to be the best person I can.

You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.

I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse.

I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful.

I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.

I think by being happy it actually affects the way that you look too.

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

It's my favorite role - being a mom.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.

I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you.

I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.

The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people.

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.

The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.

If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.

But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.

I think the best thing about being pregnant would definitely have to be seeing just my belly grow and seeing, like, wow, there is, you know, something inside of me.

I am too pure for you or anyone.

Being in love is the best feeling on the planet. I really believe that love makes the world go round.

India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

I love helping people; just being of service makes me happy!

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

My confidence wavers between being genuine and being insecure.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.

There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.

I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. Its my coping mechanism.

Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into

I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

Being in love with somebody is a wonderful feeling.