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Related I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes... ARUNDHATI ROY I don't want to be linked to anything negative. I don't want negative energy. I want everyth... KENDRA WILKINSON I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't w... JAMES DEAN I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzva... TONY KUSHNER My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I do... ED O'NEILL I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work. SAM SIMON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I'm stuck with being No. 32 for the Cleveland Browns. I can't do anything about that, and I ... JIM BROWN If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home. PARK CHAN-WOOK Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them. BOB DYLAN There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ... CAROL VORDERMAN I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. IAN SOMERHALDER There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famo... RICKY GERVAIS I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacatio... ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One he... MITCH KAPOR I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I ... JOHN MALKOVICH Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it... JACK VANCE I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fin... JOSHUA FERRIS You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know a... ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else! CAMERON DOKEY I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, 'I don't have anything.... JASON ALEXANDER I know that I'm a bit of a snob now, because 'The Lover' put me up here and I just don... JANE MARCH I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don&... ZACK GREINKE I just want to creatively grow and be inspired. I don't want to do anything generic or dumb. SIENNA MILLER I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in th... ADA YONATH When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know an... CICELY TYSON 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 I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for ... EMINEM I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that. PARIS HILTON 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 am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want... ELIZABETH WURTZEL The only person I've worked with on my album was Kanye. And between the stuff that I've done... NICK CANNON I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy. GLORIA ESTEFAN I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can forc... LATA MANGESHKAR Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need. BILL MAHER I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do ... ADELE I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don'... LANA DEL REY I don't care what you say about me anymore! I don't care what you write about me anymore. I ... GERRY COONEY I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. Pe... USAIN BOLT Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily. DOROTHY DAY I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just wa... PRINCESS DIANA I don't want to see anything natural get hurt. DOUGLAS TOMPKINS I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is... LA INDIA My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. Al... MUHAMMAD ALI I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don... NANCY REAGAN I still have a lot of judgmentalism in me, where I'd see somebody, and I just would, you know, I... SAM BROWNBACK So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no di... PATTI LABELLE There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone... SHANIA TWAIN I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow th... KANGANA RANAUT I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper... PAUL O'GRADY I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don'... SHEL SILVERSTEIN I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin. FRED ALLEN If I don't have anything to sacrifice, I don't have anything to gain. From the Bible I have ... CATHERINE NDEREBA I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it. EVELYN ASHFORD I don't like to dabble in anything I don't do well. I don't talk politics. J. B. SMOOVE There's just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don't know how to express it, and I ... CAT POWER I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to... CAITLIN MORAN I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to... JEAN-LUC GODARD Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straig... SALLY MANN You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't g... LORRAINE BRACCO I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anythi... YAHYA JAMMEH I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to se... DREW BARRYMORE In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,'... CARROLL SHELBY I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to ... PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tel... LEE DANIELS You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the ... ERIC HEIDEN I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't wa... J. D. SOUTHER When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You do... NAS I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything. BENEDICT WONG Money can't heal your heart. Money can't give you purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I... NICK VUJICIC I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal. PETER JACKSON If you told me to sit in a room, and you had a million dollars cash stacked right there and said, ... TIM HOWARD I never promise anything. I don't promise anything to my mum. I don't promise anything to th... CRISTIANO RONALDO The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don'... OSCAR ROBERTSON I've written songs before, and I don't want to share them with anybody. It's really pers... JEREMY JORDAN I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either... DAVID CROSS I don't think you'll ever hear me invoking God in anything I do. GARY JOHNSON Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my bu... ERYKAH BADU I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never ... MARIO ANDRETTI I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it. TED MCGINLEY Men don't have to tiptoe around me - you can say anything and I won't get offended. MICHAEL MICHELE I've seen a lot of people - for example, Lindsay Lohan - who got into the wrong crowd. I always ... ASHLEY BENSON I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our ... HANS VESTBERG There may be a lot of people out there who don't like me who don't even know me. But there a... RICHARD SHERMAN I don't want a lot of people nosing round my studio and bothering me. I don't want to see th... WINSLOW HOMER People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with any... ELLEN DEGENERES As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and ... JOHN FRUSCIANTE I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do t... CAITLYN JENNER I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend's children, but I don't thin... SHAKIRA I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day. IMAN I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck. AL ALVAREZ Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happ... EMINEM Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want... MOIRA KELLY I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why... AASIF MANDVI We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't ... CAROLYN CHUTE Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that, and I was like, You g... TYLER PERRY I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I... BILLY CONNOLLY I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a W... JOHN BARRASSO
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Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would nev... SHELBY FOOTE I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. B... SHELBY FOOTE Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from rea... SHELBY FOOTE I never cared what kind of grade I got. SHELBY FOOTE I've never shown anybody a draft of anything. SHELBY FOOTE I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone els... SHELBY FOOTE If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. La... SHELBY FOOTE I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both... SHELBY FOOTE Longevity conquers scandal every time. SHELBY FOOTE Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is goin... SHELBY FOOTE I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears. SHELBY FOOTE When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregati... SHELBY FOOTE A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. SHELBY FOOTE Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience. SHELBY FOOTE And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thin... SHELBY FOOTE My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second print... SHELBY FOOTE And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 2... SHELBY FOOTE I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incident... SHELBY FOOTE I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a... SHELBY FOOTE I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third v... SHELBY FOOTE But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every n... SHELBY FOOTE I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be qui... SHELBY FOOTE Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves. SHELBY FOOTE On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to c... SHELBY FOOTE When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent. SAMUEL FOOTE Born in a cellar... and living in a garret. SAMUEL FOOTE He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others. SAMUEL FOOTE Death and the dice level all distinctions. SAMUEL FOOTE My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always ca... HORTON FOOTE He's going to be a scary player. He's young, he's learning - and that was a big goal for us. ADAM FOOTE We showed a lot of character coming back tonight. This team really wants to win and if we can put aw... ADAM FOOTE Having come back like we did, I think it showed a lot of heart. We played an open game. I think we h... ADAM FOOTE Having to fight back like we did I think showed a lot of heart. We played an open game tonight and I... ADAM FOOTE It seemed like they wanted it more. ADAM FOOTE We should play desperate all the time -- why not? This team is so hard on itself that sometimes we p... ADAM FOOTE We needed to get a win and get some confidence. We had a long week of practice going over some thing... ADAM FOOTE We showed a little frustration. We looked a little scrambly on power plays. We didn't play together ... ADAM FOOTE The first thing he (Callan) asked was, 'Can I bring my Zamboni bed?' I said, 'Sure, you can bring th... ADAM FOOTE It's OK. We've got a lot of young guys. We'll grow together. We'll see what we can do. ADAM FOOTE He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others. SAMUEL FOOTE What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in other... SAMUEL FOOTE Say, when the ground our father Adam till'd,
And mother Eve the humble distaff held,
Who then ... SAMUEL FOOTE Born is a Cellar, . . . and living in a Garret. SAMUEL FOOTE So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a grea... SAMUEL FOOTE I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask... HORTON FOOTE He made him a hut, wherein he did put
The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.
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For a long time. LARRY FOOTE I want to get better, that's first and foremost. Mr. Rooney and the organization paid me so I gotta ... LARRY FOOTE The guys always remind me of that. I wasn't ready. I think it was more physical but that was a long ... LARRY FOOTE Through high school, college I've always been known as a heady football player. (At Michigan) we ran... LARRY FOOTE I've always been smart but you know how it is just doing enough to be in the middle of the pack. But... LARRY FOOTE They might not think that this guy is very intelligent. LARRY FOOTE It's true. They do have a lot of new guys. But they still have Steve McNair. With Steve McNair, they... LARRY FOOTE Trash talk? Oh yeah, I can handle my own. I come from Detroit. That's all we do. I can talk with the... LARRY FOOTE Anytime Joey Porter comes back on any defense, it's going to be a positive. He's one of our leaders ... LARRY FOOTE Before he met me, he didn't have any tattoos. 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I hope never. We would have to amend it. Let's uphold t... RICHARD SHELBY I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-... CARROLL SHELBY I'm a terrible husband. CARROLL SHELBY The Cobra is my personal favorite car. The original 289 Cobra is the car I respect the most. I like ... CARROLL SHELBY I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the e... CARROLL SHELBY The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to h... CARROLL SHELBY Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition al... CARROLL SHELBY In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,'... CARROLL SHELBY It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car. CARROLL SHELBY I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplan... CARROLL SHELBY The first time I walked by a crap table, I felt kind of funny. CARROLL SHELBY I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority. CARROLL SHELBY I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy... CARROLL SHELBY Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the ... CARROLL SHELBY I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn'... CARROLL SHELBY My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to... CARROLL SHELBY I love horsepower. CARROLL SHELBY I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's the... CARROLL SHELBY Every morning I wake up with new ideas. CARROLL SHELBY What I wanted to do was build an automobile. CARROLL SHELBY Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant. CARROLL SHELBY I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all thes... CARROLL SHELBY I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted. CARROLL SHELBY I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The nex... CARROLL SHELBY That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influen... SHELBY LYNNE Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life wil... SHELBY STEELE You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it... SHELBY LYNNE I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these pe... CARROLL SHELBY I've worked with the SVT guys for several years now, and I know they have the guts, the talent and t... CARROLL SHELBY King of the Road. CARROLL SHELBY I am very pleased that the way the Cobra turned out and how well it was received by everyone, especi... CARROLL SHELBY It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car. CARROLL SHELBY Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before. SHELBY STEELE Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject.
(recounting what he told a play... SHELBY METCALF The process of what happened and how it happened was very troubling, and I think it tainted the whol... RICHARD SHELBY And when life throws its worst at you, throw your best at life SHELBY DAWSON We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow thr... RICHARD SHELBY A number of former Wells Fargo employees have described their work environment characterized by inte... RICHARD SHELBY If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still t... RICHARD SHELBY I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can ... RICHARD SHELBY I subscribe entirely and wholeheartedly to that dual mandate, ... I do not subscribe to any rigid or... RICHARD SHELBY Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his
individual life wil... SHELBY STEELE Freedom always carries the burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves. SHELBY STEELE A great achievement of modern liberalism -- and a primary reason for its surviving decades past the ... SHELBY STEELE There are homosexuals in the world, and they should not be excluded based on their sexuality. I draw... SHELBY STEELE A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America SHELBY STEELE The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance. SHELBY STEELE From this point on, the race's advancement will come from the efforts of its individuals. SHELBY STEELE Do not hurt your neighbor, for it is not him you wrong but yourself. SHELBY STEELE I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice. SHELBY LYNNE If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and th... RICHARD SHELBY What happened as far as this particular instance or instances with the Saudi ambassador and his wife... RICHARD SHELBY I want Jess for my birthday March 19. SHELBY FUTRELL If you're going to move to private accounts, which I approve of, (you) have to do it in a cautious, ... RICHARD SHELBY It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for o... SHELBY STEELE The same thing at the CIA and the FBI, RICHARD SHELBY All (the pre-season accolades) are good honors, but I'm just one of nine players. I couldn't do it w... JOHN SHELBY particularly for properties that suffered repetitive losses. RICHARD SHELBY I had one bride come in last summer who absolutely did not want to cut costs on the flowers. If you ... SHELBY ALEXANDER I have met Scott Ritter before and I think he's an idealist. I think he wants to believe that everyb... RICHARD SHELBY So hold my hand tight. Hold my hand with confidence. For this love can last forever. For this love w... SHELBY DAWSON So walk through the door. Walk through the door and see if it leads to another one open. For if it d... SHELBY DAWSON So never let go of something good. Never let go of something you love. For you may may not find anot... SHELBY DAWSON Live Life Like Love Lingers SHELBY DAWSON I believe the continuation of subsidized rates, particularly for properties that have suffered repet... RICHARD SHELBY The question is, what took so long? RICHARD SHELBY I am concerned about this regime remaining in power, RICHARD SHELBY What we've got to do is find the truth. RICHARD SHELBY We've got to finish the job. Otherwise, the damage that they did two years ago RICHARD SHELBY I think he's not accountable, RICHARD SHELBY I believe that I have enough information -- that is, intelligence -- to make an informed decision th... RICHARD SHELBY I think the basic tenet that we learned is a lack of coordination and sharing of information, differ... RICHARD SHELBY There will be a continuous talk, but I think as far as passing legislation, I don't see it coming th... RICHARD SHELBY Joel is the champion. I want to apologize to all the spellers. Seldom do we have these problems at t... RICHARD SHELBY I share the President's commitment to fighting and winning the war on terrorism. RICHARD SHELBY We have got to be a hell of a lot more aggressive. RICHARD SHELBY Following Hurricane Katrina, state Medicaid agencies, including Alabama's, have been significantly s... RICHARD SHELBY There were no brawls, RICHARD SHELBY I wish ... that the administration would agree to declassify a lot more of the report. Seventy perce... RICHARD SHELBY This is perhaps just the tip of an iceberg. We need security at our national labs. ... It has been t... RICHARD SHELBY Whether due to a lack of resources or other pressing priorities, mutual fund abuses simply did not r... RICHARD SHELBY I continue to believe that Red River has excess capacity and that there was sufficient justification... RICHARD SHELBY I believe before they do anything substantive down there to rebuild, really rebuild, they should str... RICHARD SHELBY [But Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, said he is willing to give Pitt the benefit of the doubt. The S... RICHARD SHELBY I think the basic tenet that we learned is a lack of coordination and sharing of information, differ... RICHARD SHELBY Otherwise the taxpayer is going to ultimately underwrite everybody's risk, RICHARD SHELBY I would like to know how it could take us 10 years, dozens of lives, numerous lawsuits, substantial ... RICHARD SHELBY a vigorous examination on both sides of the aisle. RICHARD SHELBY I have been confident that the committee would dismiss this matter, and I was pleased to learn of th... RICHARD SHELBY The fact you might capture part of the king's bodyguard doesn't mean you've got the king. RICHARD SHELBY [But the song isn't a tribute to Johnny Cash's musical talent.] I was influenced by Johnny as an ind... SHELBY LYNNE Can't get much more fresh, SHELBY LYNNE [The two share some similarities. Like Cash, Lynne has spent her career trying to escape being pigeo... SHELBY LYNNE Al Green, Elvis, Patsy Cline -- you know, the stuff that doesn't go away, the kind of records I hope... SHELBY LYNNE Thirteen years and six albums to get here, ... I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be... SHELBY LYNNE What do you gain by leaving someone in a very sensitive position for so many years? RICHARD SHELBY He passed the buck to no one. He accepted it in the mold of President Truman. He admitted a lot. He ... RICHARD SHELBY Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is re... RICHARD SHELBY He has not done a good job. I think he should go. RICHARD SHELBY This nomination brings controversy to an agency that's at a crucial, critical time in its history, RICHARD SHELBY I would like for them to be our ally, but you can't have it both ways, ... Meet the Press. RICHARD SHELBY That was my amateur background. I fought about 55 fights and took a year off before deciding I wante... SHELBY GROSS It is overreaching, bureaucratic nonsense like this that makes people distrust and resent government... RICHARD SHELBY I was an opening act for 10 years. SHELBY LYNNE I think the GOP, the Grand Old Party, the Republicans, they will regroup. RICHARD SHELBY It's a good year for moving sheep into barns for lambing. Remember to keep the sheep in clean, dry p... SHELBY FILLEY When I decided to give boxing all my focus, this is the reason I did it. I'm more ready for this tha... SHELBY GROSS