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Related I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fict... JOYCE CAROL OATES It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't. ALAIN ROBERT It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awfu... CHARLIE WATTS I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being... RYAN GOSLING I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because i... VINCENT CASSEL Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL I think the T-Shirt bra is really special for Victoria's Secret because it's that kind of si... BEHATI PRINSLOO It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL It's difficult to have everybody like everything you do. I don't know anybody that's per... GORDON BETHUNE I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn... JOSHUA LEDERBERG It's always the most fun to play that guy who, like, doesn't have a filter - that really spe... DAVID WALTON I pass on a lot of teen roles that get sent to me because a lot of the time it doesn't feel real... DYLAN MINNETTE Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But ... PAWAN KALYAN The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know ... GAVIN NEWSOM I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that... MARIE OSMOND The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't t... THOMAS SOWELL But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader. JOHN MCGAHERN I have to feel myself doing what's right. If I'm the arbiter of that instead of letting the ... TIM COOK You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful ... DAMIAN LEWIS The feeling that you have a lot of time to live but you don't know how to live with it. BENJAMIN II CARVAJAL A heartsong doesn't have to be a song in your heart. It doesn't have to be talking about lov... MATTIE STEPANEK With some artists, I've noticed that after their songs have been licensed, on their next album y... PRISCILLA AHN I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big... ERIC LEFKOFSKY You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that... So, what next!?... DEYTH BANGER We all die, it's a fact that today you aren't here, yesterday you weren't here doesn't mean that tom... DEYTH BANGER It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a... CAREY MULLIGAN I think the audience doesn't know a movie's lit, but they feel it. Because you've walked... EMMANUEL LUBEZKI Chemistry is a hard thing. I don't think you can force it, and it doesn't necessarily mean t... TRICIA HELFER People think modeling's mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn't have to... LINDA EVANGELISTA I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's fa... AUNJANUE ELLIS Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don'... BEN KATCHOR I know a lot of people love applications on their phone, but I'm like, 'Yeah, I understand t... BEN HUH Managers used to say, 'I have a gut feeling.' Do you know what a gut feeling is for a profes... SAFRA A. CATZ I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situation... BILL CALLAHAN When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's t... DAVID HOCKNEY It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle.... AML AMEEN Sometimes you just don't feel the same everyday, it doesn't matter what you do, but when you... DAVID ORTIZ I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there mi... LOUIS C. K. You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don&... SLOANE CROSLEY A man doesn't know what it's like to be a woman; it's that simple. TRACEY EMIN A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they sho... EWAN MCGREGOR When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'... JOHNNY CASH We don't know the probabilities of future events. Still, you have to take action, and so you do ... ROBERT J. SHILLER I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock '... CARLOS SANTANA Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don'... ETTA JAMES Being called a 'music legend' is a very funny thing. It's nice to know that my work has ... CHRIS SQUIRE When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live... LATOYA JACKSON I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe,... CARRIE UNDERWOOD When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that... BILL PARCELLS Write every day. Don't kill yourself. I think a lot of people think, 'I have to write a chap... CASSANDRA CLARE It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singe... NAIMA ADEDAPO I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's th... MIKE LEIGH I'm such a believer in 'if you're beautiful on the inside it really shows on the outside... MEGAN PARK I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by... JOSH TURNER It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched. JAKE HALPERN I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in m... MOHSIN HAMID Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people hav... MARIO BALOTELLI A true athlete is someone who doesn't just stop training when they stop competing. It's a wa... FEDOR EMELIANENKO Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking ... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I've realized that although Valentine's Day can be a cheesy money-making stint to most peopl... REEVA STEENKAMP But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're con... REED HASTINGS It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always use... TERRY O'QUINN Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, ... DANIEL CRAIG It's very difficult to think that you're with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you... SHAKIRA In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't... CRAIG GROESCHEL Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off... DAVID JOHANSEN If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help... BILL BENNETT Things that I feel really sad about, I talk about. That way, if it's funny, it doesn't hurt ... PETE DAVIDSON I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They ... NAIMA ADEDAPO We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL The truth doesn't change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. Th... DMX Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular... HENRY JAMES There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can'... NATALIE ZEA You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's ... PATRICK WARBURTON People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.'... MARTIN SCORSESE I couldn't be 'Johnny' in front of a camera in acting jobs and behind the camera I like ... JOHNNY VEGAS You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know... IAN MCLAGAN I think that nothing is impossible when you want to fulfill a dream. A lot of people will tell you t... THALIA Mazomanie doesn't even have a stoplight, so it doesn't do a lot. But the cheese curds there ... SKYLAR GREY I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just ... HUGH LAURIE Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of... MINDY KALING Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to ge... SARA GRUEN That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will b... JENNIFER CONNELLY I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My famil... A. R. RAHMAN But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can b... TOM SELLECK A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise ... ALESSANDRO NIVOLA You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democr... VIGGO MORTENSEN You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empo... TALIB KWELI What's really scary about the original 'Blair Witch' is that it doesn't really answe... ADAM WINGARD You have a feeling when you're recording, like, 'This is gonna translate really well,' a... ZAC BROWN You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There&... DAN MARINO Your average person in Illinois doesn't really even know what workers' comp is. The average ... BRUCE RAUNER Sometimes you have to stop something to really measure the passion that you have, and either you fee... DAVID BELLE I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like ... ANTHONY HOPKINS One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are fun... GLENN HOWERTON But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing t... DAMIEN HIRST It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most ot... PATRICK MACNEE I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I... KAREN ARMSTRONG You have to feel good in what you're wearing; if you don't feel good it's not going to l... B.O.B
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JOHN OATES Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly ... JOHN OATES My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era. JOHN OATES I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high... JOHN OATES The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record ... JOHN OATES I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the ... JOHN OATES I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of ... JOHN OATES Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills h... JOHN OATES You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate ... JOHN OATES I'm a bit more grounded than Daryl. I'm more practical, more pragmatic. Daryl looks more at the crea... JOHN OATES Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. JOHN OATES My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B. JOHN OATES I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton J... JOHN OATES Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix. JOHN OATES A good mustache makes a man for many reasons. JOHN OATES There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, a... JOHN OATES If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'We... JOHN OATES Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage st... JOHN OATES I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically. JOHN OATES The mustache represented the old John; I didn't want to be that guy anymore, so I shaved it off.... JOHN OATES I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like... JOHN OATES He would be overjoyed. To see the outpouring of love from the fans, the former players and the Range... GLORIA OATES This is just a very strong testimony to the life Johnny lead. GLORIA OATES It's absolutely awesome the turnout that we've had here. Friends from as far back as high school and... GLORIA OATES I am just going outside and may be some time. CAPTAIN LAWRENCE OATES This was a one-on-one encounter between an officer and a violent felon. And there's no question that... CHIEF DANIEL OATES It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like... JOYCE MEYER Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can... JOYCE MEYER As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if... JOYCE BROTHERS There is such a thing as bad publicity. JOYCE BROTHERS I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know abo... JOYCE BROTHERS I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped... JOYCE BROTHERS The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie ... JOYCE BROTHERS Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty ... JOYCE BROTHERS Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The han... JOYCE BROTHERS