You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.'
I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.
Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.
But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear.
I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.
Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.
I don't want to do material that I don't like. I've always stuck to that policy. If that means being out of work for awhile, that's fine with me.
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.
New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life.
First thing you have to understand is that freestyling is much different than making hip-hop music: there's another whole element to being a hip-hop MC.
I am 74 now. Looking back, I have a sense of not really being in control of my career. I just went where it took me.
I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.
Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.
And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.
I don't know, 53 years with the same human being? I can't be around myself for more than three or four hours before I want to kill everybody.
I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?
Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.
On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income.
Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.
I am intrigued by different religions and respect them all, but to be honest, I feel the most spiritual when I am doing yoga or looking at an ocean. Being spiritual is feeling a connection with a higher power and knowing that life is about more than just achieving goals. It is about feeling good in the moment.
I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'
In the early 1800s, both Spain and Portugal disseminated the smallpox vaccine throughout the Americas via the 'arm to arm of the blacks,' that is, enslaved Africans and African-Americans, often children, who were being moved along slave routes as cargo from one city to another to be sold.
My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.
Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.
I've gone from, you know, being too close to politicians, to being too close to entertainers, and people's father that I'm not.
But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan.
We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.
I call it like I see it. I don't hold back when it comes to being candid on the hot issues.
There's nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, 'Be yourself.' That's not why I became an actress. That's what I find so funny: that you become an actor, and all of a sudden, everyone wants to know about you. But I didn't become an actor so I could show you me.
I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural.
I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.
