Being Irish, I always had this love of words.
Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.
We're involved in a very large study that's federally funded and being done with Kaiser Permanente, and saliva is a very non-invasive way to get cells from the body.
There's a difference between being an actress who can sing and being a Sally Song-and-Dance.
I'm so excited for 30. I hear it's OK. I'll probably do the same stuff, but I'll be more comfortable being who I am.
The three of us being brought up, even though we didn't know each other in our early lives, on the same type of music, same type of environment, there's a lot of sameness there. It's three peas in a pod, if they'll fit.
I'm a sample of Jesus. I'm a super being.
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
I'm from Santa Monica, which was an awesome place to grow up. You're very spoiled being from California. When it's below 70, you complain. When it rains, you talk about it.
We never dealt with satire or suggestive material. Although some of our films were broad parodies or burlesques of popular dramatic themes, there was no conscious attempt at being either sarcastic or offensive.
I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.
It's something to see a satellite being launched from another satellite.
Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try to understand global climate change.
I've spent my entire career being a satirist.
If you don't know Tom Lehrer, you should - in addition to being a classical pianist, mathematician, songwriter, satirist, researcher at Los Alamos and, he claims, inventor of the Jell-O shot, he is just delightfully funny and graceful.
This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.
Being gay in San Francisco is fun. Being gay in Saudi Arabia - that's a whole other matter.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
In order to thrive in the 21st century, you have to be a savvy citizen of the digital economy or risk being left behind.
