Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
We're in a long line of English people pretending to be Americans and not being as good as Americans.
I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.
Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.
I have never thought of my life as being an enigma.
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that was planted inside the womb. Development consisted of the miniature homunculus enlarging and passing through birth and on to maturity-just like inflating a balloon.
The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.
Not being able to afford many of the basic necessities to survive, I placed all my loans in forbearance, enrolled in food stamps and Medicaid, and took on part-time jobs anywhere I could find them.
I love being part of an ensemble.
The Senate should consider a rule ensuring that every judicial nominee receives a vote by the Senate within 180 days of being nominated by the president.
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.
I'm used to the Right being singled out by the entertainers.
I cannot imagine a worse job than being president of these Untied States in these most trying of times. President Barack Obama has been under siege from every side for the entirety of his time in office.
