So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.
Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
You can’t reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
Where I think people are being offensive to religion in this country – whichever religion that might be, but particularly the one I and many other Christians subscribe to – well, we will just call it out, and we will demand the same respect that people should provide to all religions.
I realised that success and pure creativity are not very compatible. The more successful you become, the more you become a product of something that generates money. Instead of being able to move forward freely and do what you really wish, you find yourself stuck and obliged to repeat yourself and your previous success.
We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
Don’t worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.
Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn’t do anything – it was given to you.
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.
The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it’s very relaxed and chill. I’m just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
A philosophy of freedom must set out from the experience of thinking, for it is through this experience of thinking that a human being discovers his own self, finds his bearings as an independent personality.
Acting is not about being famous, it’s about exploring the human soul.
If everybody loves you, you must be doing something wrong. It means there’s no button being pushed… The only way that everybody loves you is toward the end of your career.
I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.
My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you’re trying to figure it out, and you’re really looking in the right direction, everything’s going to be all right.
A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.
Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.
Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
Being happy is a revolutionary act; I think it spreads, like ripples in a pond.
Being a philosopher is to think, seek wisdom, and have principles that guide and influence what you do. It’s to give meaning to things, find your way in the world, believe that in the end, in every instance, good will overcome evil, even if there’s a bit of suffering along the way.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
As long as there’s breath in our lungs our story is still being written.
I enjoy life this way, I enjoy life being in solidarity with the people who are fighting for a better world.
Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other’s micro-expressions.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
You’re not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You’re either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.
Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.
I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.
My comeback was not about winning or losing; it was about the feeling of being able to compete at top level again.
I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.
People who look down on other people don’t end up being looked up to.
Being honest with myself is something I like. I am happy that I don’t make excuses when I make a mistake. This is a good way to improve in the fastest way.
Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
I like being the underdog so they don’t expect what’s going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I’m not doing better.
Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don’t understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?
Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.
