Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry.
What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent.
When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist.
Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being.
Oculus version three or five or whatever it ends up being is something that can be used unplugged - we'd have our own Android stuff and all that - but you could plug it into the PC and use that.
One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.
The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
In Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Angola and Cameroon maize is a staple, yet the earliest mention of maize in west Africa comes from a Portuguese document that lists it as being loaded on to slave ships bound for Africa.
If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.
I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.
I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.
Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.
I just miss - I miss being anonymous.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker.
I think my anorexia was to do with being a teenager, not being in films.
