#being

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

#compensates #misery #pleasure #rare #seen

You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality. ↗

— Usher

#become #being #fake #great #personality

I love being a dad. I'd have more kids if I could. I'd take a couple more, one or two more before I croak. ↗

— Richie Sambora

#being #could #couple #dad #i

I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#being #care #i #less #oscars

But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#being #complain #delicious #delicious food #food

If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands. ↗

— Guy Forget

#being #chair #did #doubles #down

The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no voice in being carried into the South, but he will have a very loud voice in any attempt to put him out. ↗

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

#attempt #being #cannot #carried #colored

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#ageism #basic #being #community #deny

I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe. ↗

— Francois Gautier

#being #best #correspondent #different #ended

That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#being #helped #me #other #people