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Related It never bothered me when people would say, 'You only win championships because you're playi... KOBE BRYANT It's easy when you're working together to let work things overtake your life, when all you... ST. LUCIA There is so much you are capable of doing, but you will never know until you try SOTONYE ANGA The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't hav... CANDACE BUSHNELL I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were... DAVID CRONENBERG It's not about me - four simple words that described the life of Christ. Do you call yourself a ... MONICA JOHNSON Be all that you can be. You can be great. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, rea... ALAN BALL When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh, maybe a... 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Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everythin... CINDY CRAWFORD See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? ... ROBBIE COLTRANE See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? ... ROBBIE COLTRAINE If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose... JON KATZ It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been wh... HELEN MIRREN The urge to act became the overriding force in my life. It thrilled me. There's a moment with ac... RUPERT GRAVES Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once... CALVIN JOHNSON I am not a fan of referencing your own work when it's in a different universe than what you'... JOSS WHEDON I tried not to listen very much to the critics. I know that whenever you do something, you must have... BENEDETTA TAGLIABUE What bothered me more than if LeBron left or not was that I didn't think they had great assets i... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write any... COREY TAYLOR It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you.... TEA LEONI When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just ... DAVID MITCHELL A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you hav... WARREN GILES You are the architect of your life. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Discovering your purpose doesn't have to be complicated. Look at what you do and why you do it. ... ANNE F. BEILER It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, bu... JESSICA BIEL If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ... ROBERT GRIFFIN III When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's ... ROGER FEDERER Don’t be bothered with what you think other people expect of you when it comes to your raw talent. AMBER HURDLE If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dieticia... KAJOL All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your mus... GLORIA ESTEFAN Weightlessness was unbelievable. It's physical euphoria: Nothing about you has any weight. You d... MARY ROACH When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in y... SCOTT IAN What you do will project you SOTONYE ANGA Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won... CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don... ANN LANDERS Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being b... ROBYN DAVIDSON All the time, you're going into your modeling agency and they're taking Polaroids of you in ... MELISSA ORDWAY If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it. R. KELLY People don't know how to place me in their consciousness. They think, 'Oh, you must be here ... RUPAUL Going hungry never bothered me - it was having no clothes. CHER You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what... MACEO PARKER You know, I am mainstream America, and it really doesn't matter what party you're in. When y... SHARRON ANGLE Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular... HENRY JAMES My father was very methodical about life. He'd always ask me, 'Now, what's your system? ... JEFF MACNELLY The camera or the microphone in the booth is merciless. If you don't believe what you're say... RIZ AHMED I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying ... JELLO BIAFRA When you see opportunities in your life, you've got to analyze, 'Why was that choice given t... TOM DELONGE Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space be... MARGARET ATWOOD Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU That's what you have to learn with life. It's your life at the end of the day. There's r... TREVOR JACKSON In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and wha... RICHARD G. SCOTT 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you l... JAN BREWER No matter what you do in the offseason, you can't simulate putting spikes on and standing in the... JON LESTER Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you... RICHARD LAMM 'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends... ROBERT FULGHUM To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you ... TOM LEHMAN What I always say is, 'Do every job you're in like you're going to do it for the rest of... MARY BARRA No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks do... COLIN HANKS One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's... TRACEY EMIN My daddy used to tell me 'the first time you fall in love it changes your life forever, and no matte... NICHOLAS SPARKS It's something that I love about this business and that scares me about this business, but in a ... CANDICE ACCOLA In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If... LILY JAMES If you can dream it, you can do it. ENZO FERRARI You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it ... LAUREN HOLLY If you're going to lose weight, you have to do it by changing your way of thinking about food. I... JEAN NIDETCH It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibil... BECKY LYNCH If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can d... HARVEY S. FIRESTONE I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has toug... MARIA SHRIVER You reflect on the people who used to be in your life, and it's like, 'Wow, I can't beli... SELENA GOMEZ The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's th... JAY-Z Follow your heart. Do what you love. Because I was constantly struggling with that. If it's in y... MAZ JOBRANI As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never h... DREW CAREY If you come from a solid family structure, it doesn't matter what you go through in your life. Y... ALYSSA MILANO I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking... ALBERT BROOKS When you don't have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realise you're lucky to ... CHRIS MARTIN If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a great... MAGGIE SMITH Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're w... USHER You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in... STEPHEN AMELL I don't want to play stinking, beer-ridden clubs. It depresses me even thinking about that. I re... STEVE JONES In an ideal world, you'd never have to do things that are below your position, but this isn'... SOPHIA AMORUSO You can't control the fact that you are born a white man or born into wealth. When people say, &... ROXANE GAY When you're in your 20s, you're a little more carefree; you're single. You have a very d... 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We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades. ALICE COOPER In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,... ALICE WALKER I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce ... ALICE MILLER The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native gro... ALICE WALKER She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch... ALICE WALKER The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. ALICE WALKER For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that t... ALICE WALKER A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of ye... ALICE MEYNELL Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can writ... ALICE WALKER The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where doe... ALICE JAMES It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the childr... ALICE WALKER One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any ... ALICE JAMES The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself
conspicuous in the act of laughter. ALICE MEYNELL Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because... ALICE LOWE We have met numerous times as a neighborhood. We are united in our opposition. ALICE MOORE These men, whether laicized, defrocked, or restricted from ministry, continue to pose a threat to al... ALICE MOORE I thought if someone is willing to donate them, we're willing to take them. It never hurts to ask. ALICE MOORE We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title bo... ALICE MOORE Having separate proceedings will allow the NRC to fully assess the specific characteristics of each ... ALICE MOORE We were very concerned about a monopoly and really focused on opportunities to bring new retailers t... ALICE MOORE Our goal here is to provide low prices on high-quality products and excellent services to consumers ... ALICE MOORE The goal here is to provide opportunities for new retailers to enter our marketplace. ALICE MOORE The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to... ALICE MILLER The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painfu... ALICE MILLER ,,,It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has ... ALICE MILLER