#being

There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#american #based #been #being #connection

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#comfortable #disappoints #failure #guy #i

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels. ↗

— Rupert Sheldrake

#collective #each #idea #influenced #kind

What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers. ↗

— Blake Shelton

#always #being #choose #country #country singer

Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism. ↗

— Sam Shepard

#away #being #being responsible #care #democracy

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#being #end #ever #inferior #man

You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed. ↗

— Cybill Shepherd

#being #birth #changed #even #fifties

If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#build #continue #determined #effort #feel

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#being #entailed #even #exactly #i

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#along #being #billion #few #get