The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong.
All I knew now was that nothing lasted forever, not even a friendship, and that being "different" felt the same as being alone.
...actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other "set" thing. That is not the truth. That is your miserable habit of boring everybody to death.
I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves.
I notice when you’re gone. With you not being there I notice your unbeing, with you still being a being in time but not my space.
We'd been so ... clueless that being in heat is not, by a long shot, the same as being in love, or that being in love is not, by a long shot, the same as loving.
There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being lonely are not at all the same thing?
Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody; and from being nobody to being everybody. This knowledge can bring sharing and caring throughout the world.
We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external.
Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people
I was so beat down as a young person - being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I could never, ever pull off being butch.
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.
To get to play a bad person and do bad things in a safe environment like 'Arrow' was pretty amazing.
I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.
If there’s no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
Pictures can be pretty deceptive.
To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature sometimes.