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...
Great wealth can make a man no happier than moderate means, unless he has the luck to continue in propsperity to the end. Many very rich men have been unfortunate, and many with a modest competence have had good luck. The former are better off than t...
Battles against Rome have been lost and won before, but hope was never abandoned, since we were always here in reserve. We, the choicest flower of Britain's manhood, were hidden away in her most secret places. Out of sight of subject shores, we kept ...
All people want to belong to some sort of hierarchy. Allow me to explain. The rich want to be the richest; the poor want to be the smartest; those who are both rich and smart want to be the better persons; the better persons want to go to heaven; tho...
I don't like being alone.
There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.
As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
Isn't that what love is? Being scared, then being brave, because of that one person?
The strongest drug for a human being is another human being!
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
When we make friends then we change from being animals to being human.
All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.
Being afraid, being uncertain you’ll succeed, but going ahead anyway— that’s what makes a hero, Berhanu.
There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.
I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.
