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CANDICE ACCOLA I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me. CHER I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for... R. A. SALVATORE It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones... HARRISON FORD I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what... SACHIN TENDULKAR The voiceover thing is very selfless. You go in there and they've hired you for your voice, but ... NEIL PATRICK HARRIS I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade ... P. J. O'ROURKE Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... GERMANY KENT I think it's great training for any comedian to start on cows. Because with cows, you expect the... KRISTEN SCHAAL Icon. What is an icon? 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ELIZABETH WURTZEL You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and ce... JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY It is better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things. MARTY RUBIN A heartsong doesn't have to be a song in your heart. It doesn't have to be talking about lov... MATTIE STEPANEK It don't matter if you put 'The Dance' out, or any old George Strait song. Someone is go... THOMAS RHETT I think it doesn't matter if you are the best surfer in the world. I'm going to try to be th... BETHANY HAMILTON I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown ... COURTENEY COX What keeps this industry challenging as an actor is that you never know how something will turn out.... ELISABETH SHUE Can you get better at finding what people are really looking for, based on either prior search traff... MARK MAHANEY When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. ... ROBIN WRIGHT Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always ... MITT ROMNEY Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you... LISA KLEYPAS Just having the whole control over your body is so important when you're modelling - to just be ... ELSA HOSK It doesn't matter how much I think I know about Florida, it still flips me on the head every tim... MATT PASSMORE I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and ... HOLLY HUNTER When you are a fund manager and you continue to get money, the easiest way to do it is just to buy f... JACK BOUROUDJIAN I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long dis... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to b... ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER Unlike a goldfish, a computer can't really do anything without you telling it exactly what you w... JASON FRIED What really interests me about Keene is how similar it is to Buffalo State. MEL NETZHAMMER As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond tha... HOPE SOLO If you tell me I can't do something, that's the worst thing to tell me. And that's what ... GURINDER CHADHA To be honest, we have no control over what's going on with a movie, much less what people are go... MIKE MILLS I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thou... H.P. LOVECRAFT I cannot be worried about what the fans do, ... I just have to be worried about my game, just play m... MARIAN HOSSA In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual ... DAVID SANBORN It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do... DANNY PINTAURO I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me. CHER He'll be able to tell jurors exactly what those two knew about the much-maligned partnerships. ROBERT MINTZ I don't speculate too much about the future. That's the thing about this job - it's so f... AIDAN TURNER We don't really think that much about what we do; it's just fun. WATKIN TUDOR JONES What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how... W. MITCHELL It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactl... JONAH HILL No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to ... ALAN ALDA I think it is a marvelous way to keep directors' interests and shareholders interests as closely ali... WARREN BUFFETT Most of the time when people say something sounds like Steely Dan, and I listen to it, it doesn'... WALTER BECKER I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing... C. JOYBELL C. I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing... OLASOT It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I lov... JULIA STILES If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you... JOHN SCALZI What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are. DAVID O. MCKAY When I talk to students - and I still think of myself more than anything as a kind of professor on l... CONDOLEEZZA RICE Money comes and goes. When you pass away it's about what you've done to make this world a be... TIA MOWRY The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time ... WIZ KHALIFA It doesn't matter about money and fame and whatever. I really don't care about that. My thin... ATTICUS SHAFFER It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a... CAREY MULLIGAN Injuries aren't anything foreign to me. I am used to overcoming illness and injury; you can'... CATE CAMPBELL The cleanest way to have an election is to have money that doesn't come from special interests, ... ... MARTY MEEHAN What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wa... KURT BROWNING Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be... ALICE MUNRO It's just that... working on 'Green Lantern,' I saw how difficult it is to make that con... RYAN REYNOLDS One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's... TRACEY EMIN My drive to put myself on the line comes from boredom. From that feeling when you go to bed and thin... DYLAN MORAN I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exact... J. D. SOUTHER A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good... JOHN MILIUS What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it. CRAIG GROESCHEL Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking ... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I'd be... it's really, ... BEYONCE KNOWLES Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is... DAN AUERBACH When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, ... ERIC JEROME DICKEY I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of t... MONTEL WILLIAMS I don't really think much about how I would have fared in the Second World War. It's a topic... FIONN WHITEHEAD Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it&... ANN PATCHETT Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have an... RACHEL JOHNSON You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doe... WARREN LITTLEFIELD
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