I was lucky to develop in the U.K. because I find comedy - in addition to being caustic - it's quite literary over here, and alternative comedy isn't so alternative.
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself.
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
I'm known for fashion photographs, but fashion photographs were mostly a joke for me. In 'Vogue,' girls were playing at being duchesses, but they were actually from Flatbush, Brooklyn. They would play duchesses, and I would play Cecil Beaton.
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
Christmas traditions are important in my family. Being half English and half Polish-Lithuanian, we have two separate celebrations.
For my money, celery hasn't got a mean bit of fibre in its body, and we all need to start being much nicer to it.
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.
I've been accused of my publicist of being too confessional... it's probably my Celtic upbringing.
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.
Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression.
Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.
European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government.
I think of a traditional CEO as being divorced from customers. A lot of consumer company CEOs - they're not really interacting with consumers.
I like being boring to a certain extent. I don't have to be flashy. I get to put all of that into a show, and when it's over, I don't have to be that.
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
