I am not one of those fat birds who feels miserable because models are thin. Frankly, I feel more insulted by the idea that unless I see other fat birds in fashion magazines, I will be reduced to a sniveling wreck of a human being.
There have been times when I’m writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any human being, sometimes I can’t help but wonder – ‘What are the people I know going to think about this?’ So I have to remind myself that all is permissible. Art has to be a free space. Language has to be a free space.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why’ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how.’
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
The pop-star thing bores me because it’s somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don’t say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there – you’re not even a human being. You’re a puppet.
All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.
I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you’re still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being.
How is it that you profess love for God but can’t accept another human being?
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.
I describe myself as a human being.
The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own.
Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.
Ozil is fantastic. One of the best in the world. Not only a great player but a great human being.
It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well… than to kill ten thousand.
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox’s or bear’s, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people’s lives.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It’s very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.
Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.
Beat up 10 guys, win the girl, and yet you are supposed to be a normal human being. I don’t mind doing that as a superhero but not as a real person!
I know who I am and what I’m doing in my life and what I’ve accomplished and continue to accomplish as a performer, as a writer, as an artist, as a person, as a human being.
For each human being, time is a necessary resource. It can neither be ignored nor changed.
I believe that love between people is the greatest life-giving force in the world. It’s intensely frustrating and inevitably makes a fool of you, but you can’t stop going back to it, and it’s pretty much the defining experience of a human being.
You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I’ll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.
Being a human being is all about experiencing all of the wonders of the world and therefore as an actress, I’m open to any opportunity that may enrich my horizon.
To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I’m in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being.
I don’t know, 53 years with the same human being? I can’t be around myself for more than three or four hours before I want to kill everybody.
The two basic topics which fascinate me are ‘What is reality?’ and ‘What constitutes the authentic human being?’
I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them.
I’m learning all the time. I’m evolving all the time as a human being. I’m getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.
There are women who literally squeeze a baby out of their bodies or get cut open in major surgery, have a human being, the next generation of the human race pulled from their bodies, and within a couple of weeks have to go back to work, because if they don’t, they can’t pay their bills. Something’s wrong with that.
The father’s greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don’t feel like going to work.
I’ve had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I’ve always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don’t bother them.
Pollock said several times that he couldn’t separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona – his struggles as a human being – that was interesting to me.
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
When you talk about ‘doing the work’, that’s the work I’m interested in. What can I contribute as a human being?
I hope it’s enabling me to deal with another human being who’s more important to me than I am.
I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.
When everything is stripped away in life, everybody is a human being that has problems, that has issues, has flaws, that isn’t perfect. It doesn’t make a difference what your sex is, what your sexual preference is, what your race is or what your background is. If you’re a good person, you’re OK in my book.
For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
I can’t believe I’m actually saying this, but there is a difference between the John Cena character you see on television and me as a human being.
It’s just so wonderful to have someone in the house like a child to turn your attention to. It’s not about you anymore, it’s about this lovely little human being.
But when you see personal artifacts relating to – by genealogy at least – a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I’ve ever read about slavery before.
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.