#being

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in. ↗

— David Duchovny

#ball player #basketball #basketball player #being #believed

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball. ↗

— David Duchovny

#back #ball #been #being #brotherhood

Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating. ↗

— David Duchovny

#about #being #best #celebrity #cheating

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them. ↗

— David Duchovny

#actor #being #come #forcing #letting

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#continues #intellectual #left #lives #long

I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#being #being different #believes #country #different

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother. ↗

— Patty Duke

#i #kind #like #mother #position

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#before #being #good #got #make

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#being #go #into #long #rebel

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#being #insult #like #old #old age