I'll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day.
Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living.
At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.
I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.
Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.
Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.
Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.