#being

Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will. ↗

— Artur Davis

#being #cleaning #country #executive #experience

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#characters #choose #chose #contrary #full

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts. ↗

— Thora Birch

#because #being #decision #guts #help

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players. ↗

— Larry Bird

#able #ball #being #crowd #dish

Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing. ↗

— Brad Bird

#because #being #down #feel #gonna

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#being #better #laws #like #made

I used to hate being recognised. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#hate #i #recognised #used

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#check #earned #got #home #i

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. ↗

— Steven Biko

#being #black #blackness #committed #describing

I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair. ↗

— Lisa Kudrow

#being #fair #fun #given #how