Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful.
Quite often in comic book movies, very good actresses are relegated to being the girlfriend or the helper or the sidekick or something.
I grew up in the GOP sandbox. My dad took me, age 7, to meet Herbert Hoover, in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers. He gave me a silver dollar. Being a young Republican, I spent it on comic books.
Even arch-isolationists, such as former President Herbert Hoover and Senator Robert Taft of Ohio - two of the most right-wing figures in the Republican Party - insisted on being called liberal.
The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.
Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.
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.
Radio is not a high-paying job; I just enjoyed being on the radio.
Being with my family is my highest priority.
The highlight of my career was being at the inaugural gala of Ronald Reagan, and I owe that to Mr. Sinatra.
With the creative stuff, I have highs of being very productive and lows of being not productive. I have that in my moods as well.
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
We Hindus have a long-recognised tradition of being religious liberals by nature.
Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
Being a hippy was the most natural thing in the world to me.
I have hobbies. I like being active. I like to surf a lot, play a little bit of golf.
