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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn... KATE MOSS I cut the feet off of a pair of panty hose and it allowed me to wear a pair of great strappy sandals... SARA BLAKELY Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil's snare room and they lifted me up on a har... RUPERT GRINT Some people are like cats - if they're dropped upside down, they land on their feet. I get a lit... PETER SEGAL I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn... CARRE OTIS I actually always had short hair as a kid, and it's really liberating. I recommend it. It's ... FELICITY JONES I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL To me, it feels like 'The Doctor' has to have a long coat, and that's something imprinte... DAVID TENNANT I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny ... JACKIE MASON You come to our stadium and look at the aura of 100,000 people. You look up there and see an Army ta... JERRY JONES I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I gues... MEGHAN TRAINOR The next day, I dropped the knife in the sewer on the corner of Grand Street and Fifth Avenue. JASON JONES I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to... JOAN DIDION When we dropped 'Toot It And Boot It,' Mustard didn't even do beats, and now he's ki... TY DOLLA SIGN I've been up in the Arctic Circle where they have hockey rinks that don't have any heating. ... JOHN RALSTON SAUL I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ... KAJAL AGGARWAL I bashed myself. I cut myself. I caught on fire. I fell: I had been myopically focused on peeling ga... BILL BUFORD All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. Wh... JOHN WAYNE I always have a football handy at home, and I'll play with it. Sometimes it'll get on my wif... THIERRY HENRY Men don't know how to act like men sometimes. Take the trash out. Open up the door. Rub my feet.... LONI LOVE It's a 12-hour cooking class for me on the set of 'Chopped.' You'd think I'd get... TED ALLEN As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a snowplow driver. When you grow up in the Rocky Mountain... KIP THORNE I guess you'd say I'm a gearhead. It's not just guitars; I have five or six drum sets, a... DARON MALAKIAN I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with h... FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig tha... FELICITY HUFFMAN I was training in Gleason's Gym on 30th and 8th Avenue, where it was the Mecca of boxing, and a ... TONY DANZA When I first did 'Moby,' I didn't realize how taxing it would be. I was climbing fifty f... STEPHEN COSTELLO I left Goldman Sachs. I was thinking about going to another Wall Street place. I didn't want to ... DAVID TEPPER All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot... FAT JOE I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know. MAYA ANGELOU It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet... LAURA MARANO But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind ... ALEX WINTER Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tappin... JOHN STEINBECK I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked my... CHAKA KHAN I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time... DAMIAN LOEB I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It's a Johnny Carson coat, and I'... JOSH HOMME I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. ... LADY GAGA I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: T... LAURA BELL BUNDY I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network sch... FRANCES CONROY I like throwing on shorts and a plaid button up with messy hair and last night's eyeliner and su... JESSICA PARKER KENNEDY I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I cam... J. D. VANCE I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pict... CHRIS EVANS At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it wa... GARY JOHNSON I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creat... ANN VOSKAMP When I'm running fast, I don't feel anything, it's effortless, it's like my feet don... EVELYN ASHFORD There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling ... AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET I wasn't delusional at all when I signed on to do 'Furious 7,' that it wasn't my cre... JAMES WAN Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn... BILL BURR I enjoy the acting, but I didn't plan on that. It fell into my lap, and I'm having a lot of ... DAVID LABRAVA What I wear is everything - from how I carry my hair to what I'm wearing on my feet. I have to f... LAURA MVULA I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You s... ZENDAYA Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk someti... ANDREA CORR Ring Kuot, a 15-year-old Sudanese boy, was rumored to be eight feet three. And until Leonid's em... MICHAEL PATERNITI I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyon... BARRY MCGEE I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wante... LAILA ALI I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still. CALVIN TRILLIN You see the standard hunting show; it's an outdoor television show. A lot of times, it's jus... SHAWN MICHAELS I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it'... EMILY WATSON You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I'm basically different things to different people. If it's a guy, I'm-a probably have m... THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. I have the softest beard in the world. As far as growing it, it doesn't itch, and it's so no... ATO ESSANDOH It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It'... ROBERT PLANT I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it&... KATIE ASELTON I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he know... DON RICKLES I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not ... PATRICK STUMP I pack a toothbrush, toothpaste, and deodorant. That's it. I don't have the time or patience... PAUL WALKER I'm at my most comfortable out on the pitch when I'm in front of goal with the ball at my fe... HARRY KANE 'The Count' wasn't a real stretch. I was doing pretty generic Bela Lugosi bad vampire on... JOE FLAHERTY A lot of my stories about the old days, they're delicious and funny. But every time I recall the... MARIO CUOMO Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. ... ARIANA GRANDE I don't think you can totally judge a girl based on her circle of friends and loved ones, but I ... BLAIR REDFORD Well, we're about 24 million subscribers today, and that's up from about 15 million a year a... REED HASTINGS My friends think it's weird that I spray perfume on my feet. CHANTAL SUTHERLAND My very first role was with James Earl Jones on 'Gabriel's Fire' on TV. He drove a Chevy... LELAND ORSER I had a job transcribing a biotechnology-litigation seminar. You put headphones on and fast-forward ... ADAM SCHLESINGER I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make f... IRINA SHAYK I don't think you can set up a computer to do a strike zone on a guy who's 6-foot-5 and then... JOHNNY BENCH I realized that I didn't need nearly as many calories as I'd grown accustomed to. I ate 100 ... ADAM RICHMAN What's overwhelmingly clear is 'Havana' didn't work for people, but why it didn'... SYDNEY POLLACK My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. ... JAMES FRANCO I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky ... REBECCA WELLS In professional wrestling, I think that they want you to be bigger than life. It's almost like a... KEVIN NASH I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying... ELLSWORTH KELLY My kitchen in New York City is in the Richard Meier building on Perry Street, so it's ultra-mode... JEAN-GEORGES VONGERICHTEN I wash my hair once a week. You can do that. I swear. My sister-in-law and all of my friends were li... JOYCE GIRAUD I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn... STEPHEN FURST It wasn't cool that I didn't comb my hair and had books and wore glasses. It was never cool ... AJ LEE Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit ac... J. D. SALINGER I don't have the luxury of sitting around any more. I must have had bags of spare time before I ... JULIA ROBERTS I spent the night on a sliver of rock high up on the east face of Long's Peak, climbing with Tom... JAMES SALTER John Travolta, I don't think anybody would not jump at a chance to work with a guy like him beca... ELIJAH KELLEY I'm known up there as the guy from Frog Jump. And it's a good thing. STEPHEN FINCHER If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right ... JOHN MELLENCAMP I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, y... JENSEN ACKLES I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that... DYLAN MORAN I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read chil... HENNING MANKELL If I probably didn't have tattoos, or if I probably didn't bleach my hair, or if I probably ... GUY FIERI
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KEVIN JAMES My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.' KEVIN JAMES Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again. KEVIN JAMES I really wasn't a class clown. KEVIN JAMES I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women. KEVIN JAMES Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then. KEVIN JAMES Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the s... KEVIN JAMES I try to connect with the everyday, every guy. KEVIN JAMES You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't. KEVIN JAMES It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do. KEVIN JAMES I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfo... KEVIN JAMES I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are lick... KEVIN JAMES Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. 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JAMES WAN Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha... WILLIAM JAMES Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves. JAMES THOMSON 'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it. JAMES THOMSON For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by... JAMES THOMSON The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no ... JAMES THOMSON More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution. JAMES THOMSON But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? JAMES THOMSON Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand. JAMES THOMSON When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feeling... ETTA JAMES Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a... JAMES ROUSE Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you... JAMES GALWAY A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on. JAMES CALLAGHAN A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. JAMES KELLER I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance. JAMES CORDEN You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing,... LEBRON JAMES In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If... LILY JAMES If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or v... LENNIE JAMES My expectations of other people, I double them on myself. JAMES BROWN The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply ... JAMES NAISMITH But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner. LEBRON JAMES Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. WILLIAM JAMES See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they s... JAMES AVERY I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with othe... JAMES TAYLOR I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated. JAMES FRANCO I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is ... JAMES HILLMAN The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world,... JAMES HILLMAN Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that. JAMES DYSON Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. WILLIAM JAMES To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and ... JAMES BUCHANAN A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, ... JAMES ALLEN The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID t... JAMES WOLCOTT It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that t... JAMES MONROE We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed ... THEO JAMES In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, c... JAMES BELUSHI An actor should be judged by his performance only. JAMES DEAN I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the ki... JAMES DEAN When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's followi... JAMES DEAN To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this grea... JAMES DEAN To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to ... JAMES DEAN Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated. JAMES DEAN The only greatness for man is immortality. JAMES DEAN An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences li... JAMES DEAN I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And... JAMES DEAN I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day. JAMES DEAN Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things ... JAMES DEAN I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't w... JAMES DEAN I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is end... JAMES DEAN The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen. JAMES DEAN Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and im... JAMES DEAN There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning. JAMES DEAN The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results. JAMES DEAN You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you'... JAMES DEAN Racing is the only time I feel whole. JAMES DEAN Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life... JAMES DEAN I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how ... JAMES DEAN Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. KEVIN JAMES The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why... JAMES WOODS I've done a lot of work in the gym preparing myself for what is certain to be pretty strenuous p... JAMES HIBBERD Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current... WILLIAM JAMES Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew th... JAMES HOWE The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce... WILLIAM JAMES Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration,... JAMES LANKFORD I'm a big cardigan sweater guy. JAMES FRANCO No one forgets their first love. You're experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine ... JAMES MARSDEN I loved all the princess films, and I grew up with them, and I think it's really cool how they... LILY JAMES You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-a... JAMES SUROWIECKI Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the sho... JAMES HECKMAN Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. WILLIAM JAMES No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of respondin... JAMES ALLEN A man is literally what he thinks. JAMES ALLEN The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a ... JAMES ALLEN The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and y... JAMES ALLEN I am just happy to be part of the Nike family. LEBRON JAMES There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I p... LEBRON JAMES I'm confident with my ability. LEBRON JAMES Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and l... LEBRON JAMES But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the ... LEBRON JAMES There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly w... LEBRON JAMES Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you h... LEBRON JAMES Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself. LEBRON JAMES When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable. LEBRON JAMES I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed. LEBRON JAMES I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it. LEBRON JAMES Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it... JAMES DENTON There's nothing wrong with falling in love and sharing your life with someone. LILY JAMES Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place ... JAMES TAYLOR I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball. LEBRON JAMES I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop. JAMES THOMSON It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up... JAMES ALTUCHER The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interes... JAMES MCBRIDE The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch. JAMES MCBRIDE In a way, light unites the spiritual world and the ephemeral, physical world. People frequently talk... JAMES TURRELL In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John M... JAMES WOLCOTT I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that th... THEO JAMES The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to s... JAMES LARKIN Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Six... JAMES WAN My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages, not least of whic... JAMES BLACK 'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the ... JAMES WOLCOTT To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use ... JAMES HORNER I think I feel most like a princess when I'm sort of bursting with happiness and love, so whethe... LILY JAMES Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go... JAMES SUROWIECKI I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like ... JAMES MCAVOY Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination. JAMES CAMERON There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what... JAMES PATTERSON As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the si... JAMES LONGSTREET When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.... JAMES SUROWIECKI Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opi... JAMES MADISON The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to ... JAMES MADISON The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be der... JAMES MADISON The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, an... JAMES MADISON Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty & love of country. JAMES MADISON And as it the federal district is to be appropriated to this use with the consent of the State cedin... JAMES MADISON What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty & Learning, each le... JAMES MADISON Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over... JAMES MADISON The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is... JAMES MADISON In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take ... JAMES MADISON War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of rea... JAMES MADISON The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is t... JAMES MADISON I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinate... JAMES MADISON It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the ... JAMES MADISON A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue t... JAMES MADISON Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person. JAMES THURBER Love is what you've been through with somebody. JAMES THURBER Buy a book in brown paper From Faber and Faber To see Annie Liffey trip, tumble and caper. JAMES JOYCE British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.... JAMES PUREFOY Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanat... JAMES SINEGAL I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, '... JAMES BAY I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly. JAMES PUREFOY No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruct... JAMES LARKIN I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singula... JAMES THURBER Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the broth... JAMES SALTER Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home. JAMES MONTGOMERY Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and br... JAMES SUROWIECKI Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA. JAMES COMEY But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, ... JAMES THURBER All are equal Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And... JAMES SHIRLEY Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating t... JAMES THURBER Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both... 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