I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.


Chris Burke

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You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
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I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
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Married to the Mob.
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Hello you're with Drudge.
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I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
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throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
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I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a cha...
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I like to be comfortable, and don't like to be cold, and I don't like to wear anything I'...
RACHEL BILSON
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
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I don't think I'd like to be a different person. But I do sometimes see my cats lolling abou...
CAMERON DOKEY
I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH
They keep saying that beautiful is something a girl needs to be. But honestly? Forget that. Don’t ...
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I like to be real. I don't like things to be staged or fussy.
ALICE TEMPERLEY
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
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Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.
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Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different...
SERENA WILLIAMS
I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like a...
NAIMA ADEDAPO
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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DRAKE
And to be different is great. You don't want to be the same.
KRISTEN JOHNSTON
I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's t...
DIERKS BENTLEY
I don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupi...
JUICY J
I don't like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy.
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I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.
EUGENE LEVY
I don't really follow trends - I don't like wearing what other people are wearing. I just li...
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I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics al...
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I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.
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I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be en...
ALFRED EISENSTAEDT
I don't wear perfume, and I don't like the air to be too saturated with scents.
AZZEDINE ALAIA
I'm afraid to go to sleep; I don't like to lose control of myself. I don't like chauffeu...
EILEEN FORD
I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.
JOSH HARTNETT
I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don'...
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Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
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Sometimes I'm overly blunt. I don't like to mince words. I like to get things done. That'...
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7 Rules to a Happy Life:

1. Be humble
2. Don’t worry
3. Don't settle for les...
GERMANY KENT
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD
I don't feel like I have to be the nice girl.
CHER LLOYD
I am not a fake. I am natural. I am just being Caster. I don't want to be someone I don't wa...
CASTER SEMENYA
Don't be a smart ass!
Smartass die first!!
DEYTH BANGER
I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don'...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I would like to work with Todd Phillips of 'The Hangover'. I would like to do more comedies;...
DENNIS QUAID
I'm depressed when I don't get to do music. Having to go back to doing something I don't...
KIP MOORE
I don't dream to be like mega crazy rich.
WILL.I.AM
To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON
To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
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More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
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That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
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Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
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In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND
And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
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Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN
I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is di...
DOLLY PARTON
I don't like trends. They tend to make everybody look the same.
CAROLINA HERRERA
People ask me what it's like to be tall, and I don't know what to say because I don't kn...
ELIZABETH DEBICKI
I don't think most of my hobbies would be surprising to anybody. I obviously like to spend a lot...
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I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don'...
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With solos, I don't like to be too prepared going in - I like to surprise myself.
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I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have ...
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I definitely do like change. I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I don't like th...
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I'm spoilt. I like my own space. I don't even own a microwave, and men don't like that. ...
MARIE HELVIN
Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use t...
BENNY BLANCO
Never say never. I always want to look like myself - that's key for me. I don't want to look...
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I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
PRINCESS DIANA
But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI
Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I a...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE
I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil se...
PAUL WELLER
I like my guitars to be kinda worn. I don't like it when they're all shiny.
VIVIAN CAMPBELL
It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona...
XAVI
I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autob...
GUNTHER SCHULLER
I don't like the same old thing all the time.
COBI JONES
I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to.
RON SILVER
I don't think I'm vain... but I do like to be lit well.
KIM CATTRALL
I have to be honest, I am a true jeans and t-shirt girl.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI
I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature...
ANDY SERKIS
I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
MAMIE VAN DOREN
I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the a...
OLIVIER DAHAN
I like to be myself, and I don't pretend. For instance, I don't dress up for occasions; I am...
VIRAT KOHLI
I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!
CAMRYN MANHEIM
As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thi...
ZAHA HADID
I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way.
LEWIS HAMILTON

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EDMUND BURKE
A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
EDMUND BURKE
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
EDMUND BURKE
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helpe...
EDMUND BURKE
Dignity belongs to the conquered.
KENNETH BURKE
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the...
EDMUND BURKE
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dom...
EDMUND BURKE
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
EDMUND BURKE
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera ...
BILLIE BURKE
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being t...
EDMUND BURKE
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
EDMUND BURKE
The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this gre...
EDMUND BURKE
Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.
MICHAEL BURKE
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
EDMUND BURKE
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One canno...
EDMUND BURKE
Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our...
EDMUND BURKE
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarrelin...
EDMUND BURKE
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society...
EDMUND BURKE
Custom reconciles us to everything.
EDMUND BURKE
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the ...
EDMUND BURKE
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE
When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would ...
JAMES BURKE
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is fo...
EDMUND BURKE
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, i...
EDMUND BURKE
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting ...
EDMUND BURKE
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manho...
EDMUND BURKE
Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with storie...
EDMUND BURKE
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKE
Chapter of accidents.
EDMUND BURKE
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ab...
EDMUND BURKE