Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.
I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians.
I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
It was all part of being a Beatle, really: just getting lugged around and thrust into rooms full of press men taking pictures and asking questions.
I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
Part of being successful is about asking questions and listening to the answers.
Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.
There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
After I retired, I was in Aspen, and after two months of being at home, I started to go nuts. I needed to go somewhere because that was the longest I never travelled.
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
