Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.
Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can't take steps toward whatever your goal is.
What kind of pupil was I? Well, I was a swot, but I was allowed to be without any ill effects by my contemporaries because I was excused from games due to my asthma. So being a swot was something to compensate for not being to play football.
If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.
I always wanted to find my voice and claim my tone, but I was doing it through the steps of being a TV writer. I had the executive producer title. I was running the room.
Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I'm a human being like everyone else. I'm not exempt.
Being a black person in America is exhausting.
I knew I was an exhibitionist. I came from a huge family. I found an emotional connection being on stage.
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
There's too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of things being provided.
God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve of being discharged, and thereby flooded the country with a revenue, when discharged, which could not be absorbed by the most lavish expenditures.
I'm experimenting. That was part of the reason why I named the album 'Stay Dangerous.' It was about being proactive, not reactive.
To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.
The function of arts centers goes far beyond being places for performance. They might not be explicitly religious, but they are civic and social spaces.
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
I started out as a farm girl in Iowa, and I dreamed of being an astronaut and an explorer. And I made it.
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
