Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.
An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.
One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.
The problem with being a leader is that you're never sure if you're being followed or chased.
Be simple. Be direct. Be clear. Don't worry about being correct. Worry about being real.
Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.
I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.
The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.
Satisfaction doesn't come from needs and desires or fulfilling them, it comes from being yourself, being true.
When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.
I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand out from the rest of the entertainers out there. Again, being from such an ethnically diverse place like New York, you get comfortable and confident wit...
What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has...
People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a ...
I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people...
