'Khalifa' is Arabic, it means successor, leader, shining light. My granddad is Muslim and he gave me that name.
Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist.
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.
Is being single hard? It depends where your mind is. If you are focused, being single is an enjoyable experience, but if you hate being alone, you'll hate being single. I think it depends on the individual are where they are in life.
Being popular or not, having company or being alone, are not issues of concern for the developed soul.
We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.
I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.
Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.
To be human is easy, to be a human being is difficult.
The smallest thing outlives the human being.
Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.
It is easy to be born, it is difficult to be a human being.
Being loved is the best way of being useful.
The beggar is not afraid of the drawbacks of being rich.
A big crowd, but not a human being in sight!
So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.
Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.
Life’s most rewarding forms of being: Being patient, and, being yourself.
I believe it is the mark of a great leader to question the decisions that came before him.
