If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.
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I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you'... ALFRED MOLINA Your father tells you a story when you're a kid, or your mother or your uncle or whoever it is. ... DAVID CHASE I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write any... COREY TAYLOR After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you&... AUDREY TAUTOU You're never going to please everyone, and if you do, there's something wrong. CONSTANCE WU If you sow evil & then seek that evil should not grow in your household,then what you are seeking wi... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work,... LARRY SMITH Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to k... GEORGE HARRISON That's the beauty of coaching. You get to touch lives, you get to make a difference. You get to ... MORGAN WOOTTEN In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don'... BRAD WENSTRUP You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never d... ANNE RICE If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something di... JESSYE NORMAN In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If... LILY JAMES You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of sha... BEN AFFLECK Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do! NORMA SHEARER In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it does... GEORGE HARRISON If you're not confident in yourself, you're going to waver. I've wavered, and I've l... MARY J. BLIGE Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidenc... KATE VOEGELE When you're working on a film, it's not theater; you don't have a few weeks of rehearsal... BEN SCHNETZER It depends on you, to keep pushing forward until you win or giving in. Always choice the former. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I've never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If... DANIEL BRYAN Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will ... INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 t... JEREMY RENNER If you're going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and d... BOBBY ORR There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character yo... MARC DAVIS I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, a... CAMILA CABELLO It would be simpler going to an Olympic Games knowing you had to nail one trick that you've done... CAROLINE BUCHANAN If you're going to give people 20 minutes of news satire, you've also got to give them Tiffa... JON STEWART I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's... KATE WINSLET As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel l... PARKER POSEY You never know when you're going to throw a no-hitter or if you're ever going to get the cha... JON LESTER No one shows love. There's no unity between the artists and the streets. There's none of tha... SHY GLIZZY Unfortunately, if you've ever been in southern Georgia on the beaches in a lightning storm, if y... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement - and if you... CARMEN DELL'OREFICE I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement - and if you... CARMEN DELL'OREFICE Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if y... JEFF FOXWORTHY If you've ever won a championship, then that's all you're interested in doing. BILL PARCELLS The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doin... ANTHONY BOURDAIN If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never be... DAVE BRUBECK My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going ... NICOLAS CAGE If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplishe... CARLI LLOYD In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what wou... VIOLA DAVIS You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forwar... KEVIN COSTNER You never know how much you can do in practice because you never know if you're going to play or... ANDERSON VAREJAO If you've ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with something, struggling with a... SARAH GADON I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where... LANCE BASS If I go to someplace like Switzerland, I find a lot of uptight people because they're living amo... GEORGE HARRISON If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitat... DANIEL ESPINOSA I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never kn... WIZ KHALIFA If you're able to grow up in Nigeria and go through certain things, you're able to tackle an... NNEKA I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling. CAT POWER I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role a... ALEXANDER SIDDIG Honestly, when you're making a movie, you never say, 'Oh, this one's going to suck and g... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time... KIRSTEN DUNST If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention. SIMON COWELL I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says... EDDIE MARSAN Have you ever tried to talk to a baby or a toddler? They never look you square in the eyes, they kno... JEN KIRKMAN I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know t... ED ASNER I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if yo... SYLVESTER STALLONE When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let i... SEBASTIAN JUNGER I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're... BUDDY HACKETT It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never ... MAX VON SYDOW When you grow up in an extended family, or in a stable neighborhood with two or three generations of... DEAN ORNISH If you've been running a business for 38 years, you're approaching your 66th birthday, you... SEAN QUINN You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lo... LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR. It's very hard to turn your back once you're aware of what's going on, and you're aw... LYNSEY ADDARIO In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring. MANNY PACQUIAO When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in lo... JAY-Z I find motion, literally, is where ideas come from. It's almost like a built-in rhythm section. ... KATHLEEN EDWARDS It's one thing if you live in London and you're rooting for Chelsea or you're in New Yor... JOHN MCENROE People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer app... THEODORE ZELDIN Everything I've done I've always kind of jumped in headfirst, and it's been a learning c... HANNAH SIMONE I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but i... ELIZABETH MCGOVERN I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never... MERYL STREEP If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also... DASHA ZHUKOVA If you've ever questioned your faith, you're going to question it when you are burying your ... MATT BEVIN Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'l... JOHNNY CARSON If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so yo... LINDSEY VONN When you grow up in something, you don't even know if it's bad or good. You just know that... FUTURE I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder... HANK AARON I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you're cold, or that you're suff... MARIA BAMFORD You never know where your next movie is going to come from. You just have to fall in love with somet... MORTEN TYLDUM If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your ... DAVID CASSIDY If you're big at school, you've really got two choices. You're going to be a target. If ... JAMES CORDEN When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become ... DIANE ARBUS If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you... CHUCK BERRY I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other... GARTH DAVIS If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and... BRITTANY DANIEL And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND I'll never, ever be full. I'll always be hungry. Obviously, I'm not talking about food. ... DWAYNE JOHNSON If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship. DAN GABLE If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write. CHARLES STROSS
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GLORIA STEINEM I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support... GLORIA ALLRED The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were ... GLORIA STEINEM Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm. GLORIA NAYLOR But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will yo... GLORIA WHELAN The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. GLORIA STEINEM We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern reall... GLORIA STEINEM Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat... GLORIA STEINEM We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more... GLORIA STEINEM I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey He... GLORIA STEINEM As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this cou... GLORIA ESTEFAN A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's... GLORIA STEINEM It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and al... GLORIA ALLRED Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it ... GLORIA STEINEM We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children. GLORIA ESTEFAN I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligatio... GLORIA ALLRED I think I sound like Barry White. GLORIA GAYNOR The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that ... GLORIA STEINEM Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful. GLORIA STEINEM Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how. GLORIA SWANSON I think everyone envisions me sitting at Alexandre's all day, picking out beautiful clothes from... GLORIA GUINNESS Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they... GLORIA STEINEM Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ge... GLORIA STEINEM The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn. GLORIA STEINEM The only thing I can't stand is discomfort. GLORIA STEINEM A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. GLORIA STEINEM