I know that this sounds grand, but I don't try to compete with other people. I like to think there's enough pie for everyone. The kind of people I'm competing with are my heroes - Woody Allen, Billy Wilder - who I know I'm going to fall short of.
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KOBE BRYANT Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don'... AVRIL LAVIGNE People who don't know that I do comedy think I'm shy, kind of a dud, and I don't have th... MARTHA KELLY 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 care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don'... SIA I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't t... CAMERON DIAZ 'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, eve... ELLEN MUTH I go out and date people, but I don't have that relationship, where you know, I'm like Jenni... MISSY ELLIOTT I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing ... ELON MUSK I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just tha... 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Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I... BETTY WHITE You know, I'm not really any good at working out when people are flirting with me. And I think I... JOSH HARTNETT People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live i... STELLA MCCARTNEY I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it. DAVID JOHANSEN People get DUIs, people get in fights with their boyfriends, it happens, life happens, but it's ... LESLIE BIBB But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going ... KRISTEN STEWART I'm standing behind a wall of jokes. You don't know about my personal life, my girlfriends, ... STEVEN WRIGHT I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thin... ALICE EVE I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory t... KIM CLIJSTERS 'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about s... JON CROSBY I love inspiring people, and I love making good music, but I don't stress about it. I don't ... SELENA GOMEZ This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because... COLIN KAEPERNICK 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 There are people that have that confidence, who march into VIP areas. I assume I won't get in. I... CHRIS LOWE I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their... ABIGAIL BRESLIN There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I... MARY ELLEN MARK My sister is my little star, and I'm excited for her and proud of her. With her, I'm protect... GIGI HADID I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that'... 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have of it. STEPHEN LEACOCK A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carrie... STEPHEN LEACOCK I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume... STEPHEN DALDRY In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an exp... STEPHEN COLBERT The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got i... STEPHEN COLE Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go s... STEPHEN VIZINCZEY Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. STEPHEN LEACOCK As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mo... STEPHEN GRAHAM Basketball is booming, and it's not just an Under Armour standpoint: it's about the game its... STEPHEN CURRY If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...re... STEPHEN KING I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. STEPHEN BALDWIN The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organiz... STEPHEN COVEY Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down. STEPHEN FRY And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're i... STEPHEN KING Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up. STEPHEN KING Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. STEPHEN SWID Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. STEPHEN LEACOCK He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a ... STEPHEN KING Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is ... STEPHEN HAWKING After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed ... STEPHEN KING The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing th... STEPHEN HAWKING If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and wha... STEPHEN LEVINE Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. STEPHEN LEVINE (on love) It's the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always se... STEPHEN KING But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one ... STEPHEN FRY People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the... STEPHEN KING Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked ... STEPHEN VIZINCZEY The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make... STEPHEN SONDHEIM Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. A... STEPHEN KINZER Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, w... STEPHEN MARLEY I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me. STEPHEN FRY After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world. STEPHEN KINZER Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your t... STEPHEN MARLEY If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be. STEPHEN CLARKE There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the num... STEPHEN FRY That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversa... STEPHEN KENDRICK When a man has died, he wants you to know about it. STEPHEN KING His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead dec... STEPHEN KING God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with... STEPHEN CROTTS I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wo... STEPHEN SPENDER After the day there cometh the derke night;
For though the day be never so longe,
At last the ... STEPHEN HAWES The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them STEPHEN KING When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ... STEPHEN FRY You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of ... STEPHEN RICHARDS Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right. STEPHEN RICHARDS If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t... STEPHEN KING We accept the love we think we deserve. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life. STEPHEN CHBOSKY It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with som... STEPHEN CHBOSKY