Being from Serbia makes us tough and eager to prove that we can come from this country that has been through so much and still be successful.
We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program.
Being seventy is not a sin.
I wasn't planning on being a guitar player; I was going to be a singer. And I was for a little bit in the Sex Pistols - that is, until we got John Lydon. And then I realized I wasn't really suited as a front guy.
I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.
Why is being a woman so surprising? There are two sexes. A man and a woman. So, if it's not a man in a movie, what else was it going to be?
The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!
Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.
Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone's enemies - sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.
It's not just about being sexy, it's about being confident and me being confident in my sexuality.
My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.
I love being the center of attention. I'm shameless about it.
The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.
Very early in my career, I thought I had to conform to one style of leadership - lead by being the loudest one in the room, with the sharpest elbows.
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.
Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.
Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped.
