If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.
It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.
My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.
When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.
I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.
I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I'm not being immodest when I say I'm a natural athlete.
A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.
And the reason for that I think is that in Australia our films don't get the exposure, so the process is foremost. But anyway, I love being part of the team and hate being stuck in a corner somewhere.
I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.
The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn in my side.
I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that.
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.
I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.
All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.
