I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them.
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Related I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas. CARLA BRUNI You know, I don't watch television! Sorry! I actually don't even have a television. I don... BROOKE SMITH I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? ... KARL PILKINGTON People ask me about my limp. I say, 'You know, I don't know how bad it is, because I don'... TERI GARR I don't have Facebook; I don't have Twitter. I don't have anything because, believe it o... WISSAM AL MANA I don't think anyone who runs a TV show would ever say to you, 'I have a grasp on running a ... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are... VANESSA LACHEY I don't want this to come off bad at all, but I really don't watch Disney shows. I don't... ATTICUS SHAFFER I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever... BOB UECKER I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck... M. WARD Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there'... RACHEL DRATCH I don't even know why, but I've just always done it - I don't walk on handicapped parkin... CHANTAL SUTHERLAND I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect... AVRIL LAVIGNE I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what... KELLI O'HARA I don't watch much TV or films, but I've watched Cameron Diaz. CHRISTOPHER PARKER I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for ... LARRY THE CABLE GUY I don't watch movie trailers. I just go to the movie, and I don't know anything about it, be... SKYLAR GREY Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people'... BRYAN FULLER What I don't like so much is people who - how do you say this? - who make judgments over the gen... JOHN DE MOL, JR. I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have... MO IBRAHIM I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV. ED O'BRIEN I don't watch TV. I don't use a computer, a fax or a cellphone. LOUISE BOURGEOIS I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's percepti... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil. CAMERON DIAZ I walked out of 'Harry and the Hendersons.' Harry bugged me; I don't know. Yeah, it'... TEDDY SEARS I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear o... YVONNE STRAHOVSKI I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch telev... CHARLES GRODIN I don't have much time for TV shows, but if I did, I'd watch 'Seinfeld' reruns. VONDA SHEPARD Most people don't think about race as much as I do. They don't have to. CHANG-RAE LEE You don't even wish for the success that I had, because you don't think it's attainable. TOM DELONGE I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like ... ANTHONY HOPKINS I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history i... JOAN SUTHERLAND When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that ... DANICA PATRICK It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone bei... KARIN SLAUGHTER If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don'... R. D. LAING Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time... ERIC BRISTOW I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred,... ZADIE SMITH Most people don't walk around knowing what other people think about them, and I don't think ... CHRISTINA RICCI I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've create... DAKOTA JOHNSON So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about ... EMILY BLUNT I don't watch TV. FAMKE JANSSEN Never say never, but I don't think I'll ever get Botox because we don't know the long-te... KRISTIN CAVALLARI I'm embarrassed to say that I don't have a lot of hobbies. It's not because I don't ... MIKE COLTER I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name. PAULA POUNDSTONE I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don'... LANA DEL REY I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I... BILLY CONNOLLY On the protocol, I don't know what to do... ain't good with talking to new girls... I even don't hav... DEYTH BANGER If it's old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don&... TENA DESAE I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don... ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you th... BOB NEWHART I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would... EMINEM I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. ... MILA KUNIS I don't go around lecturing people and telling them they shouldn't eat meat. I just don'... STEVE-O I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve ... ELIE WIESEL I don't know what a credit bubble means. I don't even know what a bubble means. These words ... EUGENE FAMA Some people are really proud of me, and some don't like it. I don't really know what to tell... BRYSON TILLER I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an awar... WADADA LEO SMITH I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't wa... LUDIVINE SAGNIER I don't like people who don't have opinions. DAVID KOECHNER Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them. ABHISHEK BACHCHAN I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel li... DANA DELANY 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 don't have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don't have any... AIMEE TEEGARDEN Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram... HOWARD AIKEN I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have. TAMSIN EGERTON That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want ... FRAN TARKENTON I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the medi... J. A. KONRATH I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't ha... NEIL CAVUTO I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'T... ZARA LARSSON When you think you are ready you are not ready. When you are not ready you are ready... DEYTH BANGER I don't really have guilty pleasures. I like what I like, and I don't worry too much about w... ANN LECKIE I just worry about the girls who look up to me. I don't want them to think I starve myself or do... ELLEN POMPEO I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to. LADAINIAN TOMLINSON I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in tha... UTADA HIKARU People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folk... GARY LARSON I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television. JACK FALAHEE I don't have to walk around in hats or find remote places to go for lunch! I don't get recog... MICHELLE DOCKERY I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ELVIS PRESLEY It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't li... JULIA ROBERTS I've always declined to speak about things I don't think are anybody's business, and wha... ANNIE POTTS I don't watch reality TV. I'm cool. DAVE ATTELL There are people that have that confidence, who march into VIP areas. I assume I won't get in. I... CHRIS LOWE When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ... ATO ESSANDOH My love for you is like diarrhoea, it never stops. DUDE I'M KIDNAPPING BYUN BAEKHYUN. You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. J... CYNTHIA NIXON I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don... DAN AYKROYD Most of the time, I don't even watch what I do on TV. I go in, get the job done, and just know i... DAVID HEDISON I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV. BILLY WEST I don't care to be famous. But at the same time, you look at all the role models these little gi... BETHANY HAMILTON I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are i... DAVE MATTHEWS The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe the... CARRIE MAE WEEMS I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don'... PHIL ANSELMO I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next. CHRIS COOPER I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have ... SANDRA BERNHARD There have been times where I've said, 'Jesus, I don't believe in you anymore, get out o... MIKE YACONELLI I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works. BEVERLY CLEARY Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids ... BILLY BOB THORNTON I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddene... BARBARA MANDRELL Because I was an only child, I don't like many people around, and that's why I don't hav... CHARLES NELSON REILLY
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DOROTHY PARKER Oh seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday DOROTHY PARKER If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I... DOROTHY PARKER She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. DOROTHY PARKER If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised. DOROTHY PARKER That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them. DOROTHY PARKER Inventory: "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend... DOROTHY PARKER If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do the... DOROTHY PARKER There's little in taking or giving There's little in water or wine This living, this livin... DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown? DOROTHY PARKER In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad<... DOROTHY PARKER I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. DOROTHY PARKER Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; DOROTHY PARKER As society advances the standard of poverty rises. THEODORE PARKER All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were a... DOROTHY PARKER Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. DOROTHY PARKER There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply... DOROTHY PARKER Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a poi... DOROTHY PARKER I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; DOROTHY PARKER All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si... DOROTHY PARKER I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn. DOROTHY PARKER They sicken at the calm that know the storm. DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm. DOROTHY PARKER Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you. DOROTHY PARKER Only Christ could have conceived Christ. JOSEPH PARKER He'd have given me rolling lands, Houses of marble, and billowing farms, Pearls, to trickle ... DOROTHY PARKER Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my ... DOROTHY PARKER Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejo... THEODORE PARKER Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, t... THEODORE PARKER By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infi... DOROTHY PARKER Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word DOROTHY PARKER They laid their hands upon my head, They stroked my cheek and brow; And time could heal a hu... DOROTHY PARKER Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh. THEODORE PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair. DOROTHY PARKER Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are. DOROTHY PARKER I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ... DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world. DOROTHY PARKER