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BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG I need to go outside. I wouldn't say I'm an outdoors person, but I like to go outside. EDIE BRICKELL I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of ... NATHAN FIELDER Messy stuff irritates me. I don't like messiness. If you leave something around my house, I'... RUSSELL WESTBROOK I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm g... PAUL SIMON I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madr... MAHESH BABU Bill O'Reilly is like a comfortable pair of shimmeringly angry slippers, but you know every nigh... PIERS MORGAN I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts ... SAMANTHA FOX If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of wo... TAYLOR KINNEY There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'... ABBY ELLIOTT I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I d... EMMA WATSON One of the reasons I'm on tour is to meet people. I consider it a reconnaissance. You know, I co... LEONARD COHEN I don't know who I can compare my style to because I listen to everybody from old to new. If I h... LIL UZI VERT Guys like Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Rome, Bill Maher, those are the guys I love and respe... EDDIE TRUNK I know that, for me, I need to try to cover myself while breastfeeding so that no one snaps a pictur... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN I like to consider myself a relatively spiritual person, and I just do my thing. I'm very focuse... VICTORIA BECKHAM I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark. TIM BURTON I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly. MARY TYLER MOORE I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not reall... PANSY HO I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my chara... ZANA MARJANOVIC I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are t... EDWARD BRYANT I know the food groups that I like to have and are good for me and those that I have to stay away fr... MARY TYLER MOORE A lot of people don't know I'm from the West Coast. My swag is different. Me being from Youn... TYGA I'm definitely interested in taking on roles where I don't look like myself. But I'm not... DOUGLAS BOOTH I'm looking for a feel and I have to find what that feel is before I can move on from there. I... DANNY ELFMAN I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not say... IDRIS ELBA I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person. MIA WASIKOWSKA I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. CARL SANDBURG But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. 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APRIL BLOOMFIELD I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I kno... CHARLIE WATTS The questions I get invariably focus on Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity. It's no... BOB BECKEL I know that I've overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I'm exhausted. GERI HALLIWELL Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I know I need to watch myself because I don't want anyone to think I'm snobby or stuck up. I... AUSTIN O'BRIEN I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be... DREE HEMINGWAY I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know... GRACE SLICK I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't ... RACHEL KUSHNER I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just tha... CHANCE THE RAPPER I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. 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BENNY BLANCO I don't consider myself as a glamour diva. If you get to know me, you will see that I am so dork... NARGIS FAKHRI I'm a shy person. I don't know if it's in my DNA to share with the world. LISA BONET I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze... CHER I don't think I need a significant other to be happy because I always like to find that for myse... KYLIE JENNER I'm a fast and impatient dresser, so I can't dress myself up for too long. I don't even ... GENELIA D'SOUZA Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't k... IKE TURNER So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about ... EMILY BLUNT I have so many photos of me where I'm laughing like a crazy person. I don't know what it is,... ZACH WOODLEE I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and sa... DAMIEN RICE I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they'r... CARMEN DELL'OREFICE I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they'r... CARMEN DELL'OREFICE Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I ... ELISABETH SHUE I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself... CAREY MULLIGAN Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? W... EUGENE CERNAN Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? W... GENE CERNAN I don't sell myself. I've never explained my comedy to people who don't get it. Never co... LISA LAMPANELLI
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STEWART O'NAN The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in ... STEWART O'NAN That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers w... FLANNERY O'CONNOR She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hat... TAWNI O'DELL Romance and romantic are different. Death, itself, can be romantic. Nature and a destructive snowsto... R.B. O'BRIEN The robot successfully dismounted the car, proceeding at a slight crouch, and with exaggerated cauti... MARK O'CONNELL To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the i... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had n... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a si... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Don’t tell me my writing is misogynistic or anti-feminist just because I or my heroines like to be... R.B. O'BRIEN That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," a... FLANNERY O'CONNOR When a man died, there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war, You co... TIM O'BRIEN The rocking of the boat by the waves was soothing but unknown. The men on the shore were asleep. Not... JOSEPH O'NEILL When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered. JOHN O'DONOHUE Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity. TIM O'BRIEN Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When ... MEGHAN O'ROURKE There was a lot about Kim and J.P. he didn't get.... he was confused by their lack of romance. As a ... STEWART O'NAN We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate those ... TIM O'BRIEN It's sad when you learn you're not much of a hero. TIM O'BRIEN Experience has taught me that what you love, you should love all the harder because someday it will ... RONAN O'BRIEN A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks mo... P.J. O'ROURKE Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and ... PAT O'SHEA You're the fire burning inside of me. KELVIN O'RALPH I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wis... PETER O'TOOLE I guess relationships are just funny like that. It's impossible to figure out why some work out and ... JENNY O'CONNELL If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen. CONAN O'BRIEN Lasting healing comes from being curious rather than controlling, from mercy rather than manipulatio... MARY O'MALLEY What the hell is that?" he asked. "Magic mushrooms." "I've always wanted to try those," he... HEATHER O'NEILL I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly.Oh, so that we sha... DANIEL O'MALLEY The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was pu... STEWART O'NAN The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When ... P.J. O'ROURKE The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations! JENNIFER O'NEILL Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done ... ERIN O'RIORDAN Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his... FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. FLANNERY O'CONNOR By subsidiarity is meant the principle that responsibilities should be devolved to the lowest viable... DENIS O'BRIEN For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr... FLANNERY O'CONNOR We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. FLANNERY O'CONNOR