I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.
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Related Where I used to think that this life would be good. And I would do things that I thought that I shou... SOMETHING CORPORATE Shoes are a big part of your look. I think that if your outfit isn't really something special, t... CHRISTIAN SIRIANO I'm not particularly good at anything. I'm not an incredible guitarist or piano player or so... BENNY BLANCO 'Star Wars' was something that I was definitely interested in. Whether or not I was really i... JACK REYNOR You just suddenly think that there's something quite childish about acting. Basically, it's ... KEVIN WHATELY I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do some... SAMMI HANRATTY Multiculturalism isn't just a buzzword; it's not just something to debate - I am multicultur... RIZ AHMED When something isn't done, you want to do something about it. BERNADETTE PETERS I work to make shots, I try to do something, always to do something, ALEXANDER OVECHKIN When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to... DOLPH LUNDGREN If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get som... QUINTON AARON When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I have... OSRIC CHAU I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't an... SOPHIA LOREN Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending ... ADAM G. SEVANI If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, ... ADAM DRIVER If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like tha... MAGDI YACOUB Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I trul... GIADA DE LAURENTIIS I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good... KATIE LEDECKY I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard a... JOHN WOODEN It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or... FRED WILSON I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think somethin... DONNA SUMMER Being outspoken about my faith isn't just something that I do; it's who I am because my fait... TIM TEBOW I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as a... AIMEE BENDER To say that I'm going to veto something that I haven't read is just - or sign something that... DOUG DUCEY Modelling isn't something I'm doing to prove people wrong. It's something I'm doing ... KENDALL JENNER If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn&... CARLENE CARTER I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was somethi... DOUG STANHOPE I hit .400 or something the rest of the way. I was crushing the ball. Everybody seemed to think it h... JARROD SALTALAMACCHIA Modeling, for me, isn't about being beautiful but creating something interesting for people to l... KYLIE BAX I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter. JOHN GREEN I find myself in social situations often where I think of a response to something someone has just s... CASPAR VEGA I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I go... VERONICA WEBB In hip-hop, what you have is you have a lot of formulaic-type bands or rappers that come up. They sa... SIR MIX-A-LOT I'm a very spontaneous person. When I see something that might be fun or different, I will try i... SHAWN MENDES There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seei... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON If I wasn't acting, I'd try and be a footballer. I wouldn't be a musician because I can&... JAMIE BLACKLEY I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take... BRUCE DICKINSON There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be goo... BOB BROWN When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most i... RIHANNA I know it's important to do more than just complain when there's something you don't like. You need ... JEAN FERRIS I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is alway... BRIAN ENO I can't imagine myself doing something like 'Narnia' again. I would love to do something... WILLIAM MOSELEY Social change isn't something you should do just to help pad a resume. Follow your passion. NANCY LUBLIN Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's ... GRETCHEN RUBIN Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday. ALEX FLINN Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People ... MINDY KALING I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambitio... JANIS JOPLIN The goal isnt to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing w... WIL WHEATON I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing someth... LANA DEL REY Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. OSCAR LEVANT My drive to put myself on the line comes from boredom. From that feeling when you go to bed and thin... DYLAN MORAN My body doesn't have a lot of curves; I have small breasts, I don't have hips - so I'm n... SARA SAMPAIO I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anyt... LAURA OSNES Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and... ROBERT BRINGHURST Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written ... GRACE SLICK I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an exter... ATHOL FUGARD I think they just thought of her as you would think of a cat or dog or something. ALAN LEVY We always try to do something fun on Fridays. We have snow cones or watermelon. We make it a little ... ALAN HAWKINS But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read somethi... ELIZABETH OLSEN Boldness isn't something you're born with; you either choose it or you don't. MIKE YACONELLI Fantasy isn't something you run out of. NANCY FRIDAY I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting. BOB ODENKIRK I didn't want to do something on Native Americans or Rosa Parks and this seemed interesting. LYNN WILLIAMS If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all. AL-WALEED BIN TALAL People sniff out when you try to fake something or be something you are not. SAM HUNT I usually just dress myself. I typically make something or buy something and fix it up. I really lik... SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather tha... BRAD PITT I would like to think that I curse expertly - it's not something that I do without considering i... ADAM MANSBACH I just try to stress being safe. If I see horseplay or something like that where I see where it pres... CURTIS HAWKINS The first rejection that 'Dexter' got, I was like, 'OK. This hasn't worked. Let'... JEFF LINDSAY Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breakin... SHAILENE WOODLEY I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or... DAVID OGILVY Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. An... INGRID BETANCOURT The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came u... WARD CHURCHILL We still want to keep our casual look, but now people want something extra and interesting. Not just... CONSTANCE WHITE We all think of doing something distinctive in life. We all do dream of becoming great and leaving d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you. LORETTA YOUNG It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don... TAJ MAHAL Watch TV or something." That's what the note says. So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll d... ANDREW CLEMENTS If I catch one of my fans saying something improper, a gay slur or any derogatory term, I instantly ... DRAKE BELL What other people think of how I play and how I go about things really isn't something I worry a... COLIN KAEPERNICK The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing som... BEN WHISHAW I would not want to write something about something I do not think about. GEEZER BUTLER One of the nicest privileges as an actor is to know that you can move people in one moment, make the... GERARD BUTLER I don't necessarily enjoy being at the gym. It's something I have to do, more than something... NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU I start listening to something, or I'm seeing somebody a lot or seeing their art. And then I jus... ELIZABETH PEYTON God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it... OLYMPIA DUKAKIS I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something. AARON ECKHART I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because w... MARILYN MANSON But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supp... NORTON JUSTER There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't ... KAREN ELSON I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get... EDDIE VEDDER If I'm going to make something in the kitchen, even if it's something as simple as a sandwic... KYLE MACLACHLAN I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you&... JACK REYNOR There's something wrong with him to do something like that and not know if I was home or not. BRIAN STEVENSON I just play my game. I don't care about stats. I just play hard and try to make something happen, ei... CROSBY STYLES I pretty much have to try and make the best of it when I get on the field or have the ball. I've jus... DARREN SPROLES In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual ... DAVID SANBORN Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and si... WALTER CRONKITE As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don... DAVE NAVARRO
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MARK HOPKINS Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it... MARK HAMILL What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet! MARK MCKINNEY To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. MARK EDWARDS What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ... MARK TWAIN When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B... MARK TWAIN When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu... MARK TWAIN The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly... MARK TWAIN By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec... MARK TWAIN So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment. MARK TWAIN The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes... MARK TWAIN We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest w... MARK TWAIN The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the diff... MARK TWAIN Say the report is exaggerated. MARK TWAIN A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will ... MARK TWAIN To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. MARK TWAIN I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than ... MARK TWAIN A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; t... MARK TWAIN Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the st... MARK TWAIN Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi... MARK TWAIN Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to... MARK TWAIN We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ... MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. MARK TWAIN All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people... MARK TWAIN Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find... MARK TWAIN Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood... MARK TWAIN As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out. MARK TWAIN I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshol... MARK TWAIN Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than... MARK TWAIN The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without burst... MARK TWAIN When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. MARK TWAIN All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. MARK TWAIN The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh... MARK TWAIN To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand ... MARK TWAIN All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'pay... MARK SKOUSEN Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset ... MARK GATISS I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f... MARK RUFFALO There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of t... MARK ZANDI I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you. MARK MCKINNEY Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ... MARK ZANDI James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t... MARK WAHLBERG There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the ... MARK GODDARD I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Los... MARK GODDARD I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry abou... MARK RONSON Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like goin... MARK KELLY I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have t... MARK FROST We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunit... MARK RUTTE We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-s... MARK RUTTE We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to... MARK ZUCKERBERG Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can affor... MARK ZANDI The best person to get something done is a busy person. MARK BURNETT The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good... MARK STEYN I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the pres... MARK MCKINNON Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we shoul... MARK MCKINNON Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, t... MARK HOPPUS The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,... MARK ZANDI In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not tryi... MARK WAHLBERG When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting th... MARK WATERS Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person. MARK TWAIN It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal... MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired MARK TWAIN It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. MARK TWAIN Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to. MARK TWAIN Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting... MARK TWAIN To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do. MARK TWAIN Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest. MARK TWAIN The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itse... MARK TWAIN Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would ... MARK TWAIN If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don'... MARK FUHRMAN There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. MARK TWAIN The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things tha... MARK TWAIN Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled MARK TWAIN Necessity is the mother of "taking chances" MARK TWAIN I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was rea... MARK RUFFALO Distance lends enchantment to the view MARK TWAIN Be good and you will be lonesome. MARK TWAIN Chastity - you can carry it too far MARK TWAIN The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline ... MARK RUSSELL To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble. MARK TWAIN Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in it... MARK TWAIN Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. MARK TWAIN Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshel... MARK FRAUENFELDER Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk... MARK BILLINGHAM China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main ... MARK CARWARDINE When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one. MARK TWAIN There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many... MARK TWAIN Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you. MARK TWAIN Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, out... MARK FROST I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and lookin... MARK TWAIN The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half ... MARK EDWARDS A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. MARK RUTHERFORD Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would... MARK TWAIN Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relati... MARK TWAIN Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material... MARK TWAIN Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no... MARK TWAIN There is a great deal of human nature in people. MARK TWAIN If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance. MARK TWAIN There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. MARK TWAIN The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monot... MARK TWAIN Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. MARK TWAIN Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat... MARK TWAIN It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts th... MARK TWAIN Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income... MARK ZANDI Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe... MARK KENNEDY There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles. 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He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magi... MARK RYDELL I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it an... MARK MCGWIRE O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover th... MARK TWAIN A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose. MARK TWAIN Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so,... MARK TWAIN There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to... MARK TWAIN All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will... MARK MCCORMACK I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treas... MARK TWAIN We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.” Snorri shook his head. “A... 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