#being

I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die? ↗

— Duane Chapman

#being #burned #christian #cremated #die

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. ↗

— George Chapman

#englishman #flattered #lamb #lion #threatened

I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#any #being #context #costume #designer

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#being #having #i #just #means

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#experience #human #human being #human experience #immersed

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. ↗

— Ray Charles

#black #blind #did #doing #i

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#being #co-opted #constantly #continually #however

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud. ↗

— Saul Williams

#around #because #being #black #blackness

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention. ↗

— Julie Christie

#actually #attention #because #being #hard

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create. ↗

— Christo

#because #beings #bigger #build #create