I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
It's a great thing about being pregnant - you don't need excuses to pee or to eat.
It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion.
Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.
I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.
The measurement of good policy is the well-being of the community. I saw the human faces of failed policies, and they weren't smiling.
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
I'm very physical. It's an important part of being a woman - feeling good about yourself and really being in tune with your personality.
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
You need fear and doubt to drive you on. Without it, you end up living in the past and being happy with what you have achieved.
I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.
The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
