Quotes with being

Quotes 241 till 260 of 1877.

  • Bruce Rauner Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state government.
    Bruce Rauner
    American businessman, philanthropist and politician (1956 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bill Plympton Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Assata Shakur Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Buchi Emecheta Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Beck Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • John Irving Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Kingsley Amis Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Ben Chaplin Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler.
    Ben Chaplin
    English actor, director and writer (1969 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Junot Diaz Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Being as we know it, the world as we come upon it, stands before us as otherness, remoteness. For all our efforts to exploit or comprehend it, it remains evasive, mysteriously immune. Being is unbelievable.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Daniel Day Lewis Being at the center of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence - the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
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  • Arthur Wellesley Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • Andy Warhol Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Mike Todd Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.
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  • Aldous Huxley Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bud Grant Being cold for a short period of time is not life-threatening. You can perform a task when you're cold. We proved that when the Vikings played outside.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Bud Grant Being cold is not debilitating. We learned that from the Eskimos. They could be cold, and they could function. And you could function better when you're cold than when you're hot. I mean, hot, you become overheated, and, you know, you lose energy. If you're cold, you could function being cold. Now, frozen is different.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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