Being Quotes
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The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.
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I don't like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible.
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Maybe it's just me being lazy but I just don't like describing my music or style or anything, I just like letting people interpret it.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won't do what you've done before.
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Being a leader means being able to help others discover and then live out their by inspiring them to seek it every day.
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Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.
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I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.
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Being patted is what it is all about.
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Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.
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When I was seven years old I played the flute, then by 11 I quit being a musician and got into Djing.
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The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing.
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I've been having these dinner parties at my house in L.A. for years that turn into charades parties. I'm so good at breaking stuff down into syllables and sounds. If I were to be doing anything else besides being an actor, I would be a professional charades player. I'm not sure if it exists, but if it didn't, I'll create it.
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No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.
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Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.
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People who are following their dreams inspire me. I train at this relatively new gym in West Hollywood called Training Mate. It's owned by a former Australian football player named Luke Milton. The classes are mostly taught by other Australians that are just like Luke: fit, funny, cute, and approachable. Now they're talking about opening another location. He will open another location and be successful because he's following his dream. People like him inspire me because they make me think I can do it too.
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I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.
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I have searched all over the world but failed to see a virtue better than being well-behaved.
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It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here.
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My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.
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There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.
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I love New York, and I love being here, but I think I'll always be Australian at heart.
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For me, drag is not about being a woman - or being anything, specifically.
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We like being ridiculous and I think that's lost on a lot of people, or they think we're coming from this super serious angle, and that's too bad, really.
