If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.
For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.
I'd rather apologize to you for not being who you want me to be than apologize to God for not being who I should be.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
When I turned about 18 or 19, I was really ready to, like, stop being - stop being seen in this, like, perfect light.
Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.
Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.
When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.
I used to tell moms that for the sake of their well-being they had to put themselves first. But I know now that's not always possible.
Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.
Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.
That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being.
... but she was also bewilderingly lonely... Abra had lost her gift for being alone.
Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.
Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.