I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.
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Related My world view is that it can all go to hell in an instant, and you have to be ready for it. That'... DAVID MORRELL I'm pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if it's become obsolete. And things lik... RICH SOMMER It's not about how skinny you are or how much money or how many diamonds you have - that's t... KIMORA LEE SIMMONS Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, y... VINNY GUADAGNINO I have to say when a man lives for himself, it's hard to live with him. That's pretty much t... JOHN MELLENCAMP I always have a very complex personal life as far as romance goes. Sometimes I have a little too muc... EMILY MEADE I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I am not his employer. I do not have such authority.... MIKE LOVE What writing a poem really does - and what figuring how to perform effectively really does - is forc... DAVEED DIGGS I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is pe... MAIWENN It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love m... RICK SPRINGFIELD What you put in your mouth and how much exercise you get, that's pretty personal. It doesn't get muc... JACOB SULLUM I did not fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I a... MIKE LOVE I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my ima... JOHN IRVING I suppose I had these concerns but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated... ATOM EGOYAN My breakfast consists of two cappuccinos and maybe a toasted English muffin, and that's pretty m... KYLE MACLACHLAN I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical natur... JEFFREY JONES It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much,... TIM BURTON I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in m... RAEKWON It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap you... TOM HANKS I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my per... MAIA MITCHELL I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. Th... MITCH HEDBERG I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She&... ARETHA FRANKLIN I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walk... PAUL WALKER There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much ... AARON RODGERS Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea... JODI PICOULT That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unac... VICTORIA JACKSON I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because ... J. C. WATTS I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, wh... JAMES CAAN Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I ... MICHAEL PORTER I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log ... BOB GRAHAM Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds o... GEORGE LUCAS I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart... HOWARD DEAN I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it's pretty irritating on my skin... CHRIS PINE I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the ... MILLA JOVOVICH I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too inst... FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know,... PAUL KRUGMAN Over the course of the last generation or two, a variety of technological, economic and social chang... ROBERT PUTNAM Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you ... CECELIA AHERN Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit ac... J. D. SALINGER I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes ... ALICE MUNRO With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to th... ENYA I want to show my versatility and how diverse I am, how I approach the track, my rhythm, my melodies... FUTURE That's how I make work. Along the way, I take notes, I read about history and popular culture. S... MARK BRADFORD And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how the... LAURA INNES I let previous instances creep up in my thought process sometimes. I think that's where things g... JAKE ARRIETA Sometimes random things that you wouldn't think mean anything mean so much to them. With kids, y... HEIDI KLUM I've loved Danielle Spencer since 1989 - that's never going to change - and that's one o... RUSSELL CROWE Kids have so much screen time, and it's a concern. I know how overloaded I can feel sometimes. SUZANNE COLLINS I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I ... MADONNA CICCONE The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined t... CHRIS CRUTCHER I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all ... JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ That's going to be VEEEEEEERYYYY Nasty.... DEYTH BANGER Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?... DEYTH BANGER Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's... BILL BLASS I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out'... JOSH PECK I'm a master at setting people off...' accounting my sexual history and scope of experience; surrend... ROBERT WESLEY MILLER Sometimes when we have so much going on, it's easy to forsake the things that seem like personal... KRISTIN ARMSTRONG ...So to be fast to don't be long and to try to be short... If you want to play the best game, creat... DEYTH BANGER We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arith... SUSAN GEORGE They're trying to create the perception on Wall Street that inventories are in great shape, but how ... BILL DREHER Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live ... HAIM SHAPIRA I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call... LAURA LINNEY As soon as I get time, I want to start to do some fight training. I tried a little boxing once with ... KATIA WINTER I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a r... VERONICA LAKE Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That'... ROBERT REICH I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. Tha... ANTHONY BOURDAIN I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself... MADONNA CICCONE After I had my kids, I realized it's pretty much all about instinct - you have to do what's ... TORI SPELLING There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't gross... CHLOE SEVIGNY I'm not a great actor - let's face it. I don't have a great deal of scope. There are cer... STEVE MCQUEEN I think that it's really incredible, growing up and being able to have all these people who real... OLIVIA HOLT In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lo... OZWALD BOATENG I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real... CHIAKI KURIYAMA People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and ... MARY ELLEN MARK Sometimes when I hear commentating, it's sickening. People who never played the game, people who... KEVIN GARNETT I think there's such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy... how m... KATIE KITAMURA I've learned a lot. I've learned that pretty much everything I have is replaceable, as long as I don... JASON MATHEWS People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?'... CARL HIAASEN I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to b... NATHANIEL RATELIFF In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, ... CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN I feel like my life is pretty much on display. So much of it is working, and that's really all I... CASSIE STEELE The popularity of Groupon has almost rendered the group-buying element of it obsolete, because we... ANDREW MASON I have my guy Semi who is my on the road - he's my personal trainer. He helps me out with traini... AVICII I forget sometimes that I'm in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their progra... JOHN GALLAGHER, JR. Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fa... OSCAR PISTORIUS I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been... OWAIN YEOMAN Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with P... ALICE EVE There's not much that I haven't done in my life, but there's lots of things that I'd... ALAN THICKE I used to say to myself, 'Well, in the old days everybody danced because they loved to dance, an... TWYLA THARP The things of substance are the things that we need to focus on, but they are the things that seem t... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the sam... KRISTEN STEWART I suppose that's the European way, dangerous and hairy. JASON STATHAM I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much... EVAN PARKER I've said many times in the past that my career's not going to go on much longer; I'm no... CASEY STONER It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years... JERRY ZUCKER I kind of - I like my life; I feel I have lots of opportunities. And my parents actually having had ... AMY CHUA It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much. ALAN VEGA As an actor, you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life t... MICHELLE FAIRLEY I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I m... B. WAYNE HUGHES
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