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KEITH HARING That didn't happen. Still, I had six pretty good years and one where I didn't reach what I w...
BRYAN ROBSON I wasn't really into school that much. I was in this building having to cram knowledge I didn...
KSI Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.
SERENA WILLIAMS I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was ...
ARIEL PINK I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money.
DAVID A. SIEGEL I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into...
WENDI DENG MURDOCH And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that...
DAVID BENIOFF I think I earned the players' respect, and that's the ultimate in life, isn't it? I didn...
AL BARLICK I learned how to dance every move of 'Billie Jean.'
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PATRICK DUFFY I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I d...
RACHEL KELLER I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher...
DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS I didn't go to drama school, so I didn't really have many true friends in the business; '...
ALFIE ALLEN I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't...
B. D. WONG I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survive...
ERIC CLAPTON It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was...
DAN HILL I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think...
BEAR BRYANT I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write t...
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OWAIN YEOMAN I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing someth...
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DOUGLAS KIRKLAND I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I starte...
BARBARA CORCORAN I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about w...
ELLEN DEGENERES I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happene...
ERIC MCCORMACK I was going to move to New York after college and had no interest in pilot season. I'd seen what...
TROIAN BELLISARIO I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was ...
ELIZABETH PENA I remember when I went to try out for the Olympic team in 1972, Coach Iba told me he didn't care...
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KRISTEN STEWART I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illu...
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RICK ALLEN I didn't feel a specific pressure to prove myself because I had an actor in the family. I didn&#...
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GEORGE A. ROMERO I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
MAGGIE HASSAN I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a rela...
EVAN GLODELL I never had any trouble being myself. Myself was a problem for a lot of people, but I didn't hav...
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JASON LEE Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like...
KEVIN DURANT I was terrified of being a mum because I didn't think I'd ever be grown up enough.
ESSIE DAVIS When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew...
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EDGAR WINTER I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered m...
FRANCES BAY I bought all the books, but I probably knew on the first day that law school wasn't for me. I di...
CHARLES SCHWAB I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.
NICHOLAS HOULT I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the tr...
JAIME KING I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because...
GORDON BROWN Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.
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CHARLES KIMBROUGH I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been...
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MAJ SJOWALL I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not...
LOU HOLTZ If I was a 13-year-old and someone like Billie Jean King came to a camp and told me the ups and down...
TRACY AUSTIN I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would...
EMINEM I've always been really hard on myself. If I didn't book a job, I would cry.
BELLA HADID I always knew I wanted to go to NIDA. I think I was very fortunate, and I do doubt myself often, but...
ESSIE DAVIS I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a...
BOB SCHIEFFER As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a w...
LARRY BIRD One match that really sticks out for me, there's a bunch of matches with all the guys that I wor...
BROCK LESNAR One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at mysel...
ANNA FARIS I think it would have been harder if we had kids...for me it was just taking care of myself.
NATASHA LOCKWOOD For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie m...
MICHELLE DOCKERY I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I wa...
LAURYN HILL If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was s...
VALERIE BERTINELLI Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes d...
NANCY REAGAN I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
TED TURNER I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn't care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out.
GEORGE HARRISON As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick fe...
CARL HAGELIN I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.
STEFAN SAGMEISTER When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn't know that my wedding was ...
NIECY NASH I didn't grow up thinking I was pretty; there was always a prettier girl than me. So I learned t...
KERRY WASHINGTON Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't ...
LYNN JOHNSTON I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that ...
ANTOINE PREDOCK I never weighed myself when I was at my lightest because I didn't want to know.
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LANCE HENRIKSEN At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom ...
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BILLIE JOHNSON I heard the words 'Salt Rock' and realized those people were from here. To think that the people inv...
BILLIE BROWN I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Money, you have lots of friendshanging round the door.When it's goneand the spending endsThey don't ...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Don't threaten me with love, baby
BILLIE HOLIDAY Terror runs for king I said. It is better to explore within. We were apes before we spoke of sin. Th...
BILLIE HOLIDAY If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and...
BILLIE HOLIDAY One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
BILLIE HOLIDAY If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.
BILLIE HOLIDAY People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you wan...
BILLIE HOLIDAY There's no damn business like show business -- you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Mama may have, papa may have,But God bless the child that's got his own!
BILLIE HOLIDAY Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and...
BILLIE HOLIDAY I'm happy in the UK. I absolutely love it and I've finally got a great group of friends. I&#...
BILLIE PIPER I'm a bit of a recluse, very fond of my own company.
BILLIE WHITELAW In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinem...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.
BILLIE BURKE I am not a big horror freak. I'm a bit of a scaredy-cat in general. I can't handle scary mov...
BILLIE LOURD You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real ...
BILLIE HOLIDAY You can be up to your boobies in
white satin, with gardenias in your hair
and no sugar c...
BILLIE HOLIDAY I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anyt...
BILLIE WHITELAW I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school ...
BILLIE WHITELAW I very often wake up at two in the morning with my stomach going over. Sometimes it's difficult ...
BILLIE WHITELAW Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the c...
BILLIE WHITELAW I do talk a lot - far more than my husband - but I'm not good at talking to a lot of people. I e...
BILLIE WHITELAW When you get real stage fright, it comes like a sledgehammer out of the blue in the middle of someth...
BILLIE WHITELAW Amadu is all about the family. I've never known love like that before, and it made me think, ...
BILLIE PIPER A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing li...
BILLIE PIPER I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.
BILLIE PIPER