#being

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. ↗

— Huey Newton

#being #bring #chamber #community #consciousness

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. ↗

— Anais Nin

#contact #each #human #human being #precious

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money. ↗

— Renee Zellweger

#big #doing #film #horrible #making

Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon. ↗

— Richard O'Brien

#adore #any #being #goodbye #i

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#bad news #being #close #delivering #fail

It's not being marketed as a gay show by a gay person. It's just Ellen DeGeneres. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#ellen #gay #just #marketed #person

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it. ↗

— Hugh Downs

#air #anything #attention #being #ego

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

#compensates #misery #pleasure #rare #seen

You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality. ↗

— Usher

#become #being #fake #great #personality

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. ↗

— Richie Sambora

#being #could #couple #dad #i