To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it.
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
I remember being totally enamored with Sid Caesar.
No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.
The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.
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.
It's a profound thing to watch another human being come out of your body.
You acquire certain tastes. And if your taste happens to coincide with the majority of people, then you're in pretty good shape. But you're not always right. There were times when I stubbed my toe, and some will end up being on my tombstone - like 'Supertrain.'
Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.
When young ladies approach me and thank me for providing a conservative role model, it's all worth it. When the family members of law enforcement officers approach me and thank me for being a voice for their community, it is all worth it.
I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.
I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.
As an individual, and I have to say as a person of color, the thing about being an 'other' in America is I really feel like you're bilingual. I'm from a small town in Wisconsin, but even when I'm in New York and I'm working for MSNBC or CNN, you're used to being the only black person in the room.
I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.
It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
A part of being in the army is you never really leave a man behind.
I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.
If you watch wrestling, you now know the hip-hop culture is being represented with wrestling. For the longest time, the cultures have almost been parallel.
Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.
The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me.
Work at being a humble person.
Now I literally roll out of bed and put on whatever is there. I have really enjoyed being a boy this last year.
I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.
I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.
I grew up having all the Dolce & Gabbana campaigns on the walls of my teenage bedroom, and I was dreaming of one day being a model.
People think coming in under the radar is like being a fighter pilot and actually coming in under the radar. It's a completely ridiculous idea to come in under the radar. It's the Olympics; everyone is on the radar here.
In a way, perhaps, there's an advantage of being on the edge of something and looking in as the observer, because as the filmmaker, you're the storyteller, and you're pulling out this universal story.
I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded.
It was really an experience, being my first time directing a movie. The scenes that I was in, Brooke really directed me all the time. And the scenes that both of us were in, Brooke directed those. Come to think of it, Brooke directed most of the scenes.
I'm a homebody. If I'm not working I'm with my family being a dad.
