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KING KRULE I've got a song called 'Salt Skin' because when you run in the heat it evaporates and yo... ELLIE GOULDING As long as I get those running shoes on, then there's no turning back, and I have to go for that... KIM RAVER I have a very eclectic iPod. So I've got my cardio people - so it's anything from Beyonce to... MICHELLE OBAMA You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones. KEITH RICHARDS I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen ... KEANU REEVES You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate t... ROBERT FORSTER I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. ... ALAN MOORE I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then ... STEVE BURNS Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can. MARIN HINKLE And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a scrip... WILL ARNETT When you get out there on the mound, you've got what you've got, and you got to figure out a... JACOB DEGROM I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb pe... KEANU REEVES I'm actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make p... GIADA DE LAURENTIIS I remember when I got to 16, my mum was like, 'No, now you've got to go and get a proper job... KELLY BROOK You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you... BENJAMIN JOWETT You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries... VIVIENNE WESTWOOD We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We... CAREY MULLIGAN When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play... IAN MCSHANE I've got all of the old school vinyls from the '70s - even further back, like the jazz music... TY DOLLA SIGN When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any mo... LARRY DIXON When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go. CAROL BURNETT I've been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldn'... YARA SHAHIDI When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give di... ANNE M. MULCAHY I've always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you've got scoundrels in office, you vot... RUSH LIMBAUGH When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm g... FREDDY ADU A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I&... GABRIEL BYRNE I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that. ELVIS PRESLEY I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor. MARIANNE FAITHFULL I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of pers... ALEX KINGSTON You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fi... HOWARD STERN Every game, we're going to go for it, so when we get into playoff time, it's not like, '... DAN QUINN I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 ... RUPERT MURDOCH I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Eve... CONOR MCGREGOR You've got to do what's right, or what you think is right. And you've got to make tough ... ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it? JOAN BAEZ I've got so many mountains to climb and goals to conquer. I've got so many scars I want to l... NIKKI SIXX If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resen... A. PHILIP RANDOLPH I think it's time that we said to people who are incapable of acknowledging that they've eve... MICHAEL GOVE Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got t... DOLLY PARTON Like anything important, anything you need people to hear - you've got to have music for it. You... TREY PARKER Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and un... RAFAEL PALMEIRO I think the key is that nothing's ever perfect and you've got to be able to go with change. ... BEN SAVAGE I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The ... TONY KORNHEISER Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to sa... D. H. LAWRENCE I eat bags and bags of cashews. I've got them in the kitchen, and about ten feet away I've g... MICHAEL FRANTI I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or wh... JAMIE OLIVER A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a ... GERI HALLIWELL In playoff football, you've got to be physical. You've got to run the ball. EZEKIEL ELLIOTT You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians t... ZAKK WYLDE No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it'... IAN RANKIN When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tom... ELIZABETH TAYLOR You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it. DANIEL CRAIG I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audit... LAURIE METCALF When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got... RUPERT MURDOCH Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. J. K. ROWLING When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and ... FRANK OCEAN You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got m... RYAN STILES When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I... GORDON BROWN I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have ... SCOTT ADKINS I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19... LAURA VANDERVOORT I've always gotten along well with Texans. You've got to. BURT REYNOLDS Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do. JERRY BRUCKHEIMER Each year, you've got to talk about it more and more, you've got to have programs. You'r... CALVIN JOHNSON I learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to k... ANNE M. MULCAHY Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend. BILL WATTERSON I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest. SHIRLEY MANSON Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you'v... BARBARA BROCCOLI I've been seeing a lot of theatre in New York, and I am sort of terribly jealous of everyone on ... CARRIE COON I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some exte... SPIRO T. AGNEW I ain't going to say everything I touch turns to gold or camouflage. I've got to work hard t... BOO WEEKLEY Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly gratef... JOHN TAVENER I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a wo... KHALED HOSSEINI I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, ... WENDY COPE I'm about to do my second Bikram yoga class in Anchorage, Alaska. It's the only way to stay ... EMILY BLUNT Since 1981, I've spent every Thanksgiving Day broadcasting a game, and it is one of my favorite ... JOHN MADDEN The joke I wanted to put into one of the promos for this new season, was to have a guy come up to me... TONY DANZA I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded complim... KATE WINSLET You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else cou... WILLIAM ALBERT ALLARD I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing. VICTORIA WOOD Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.... MAYER HAWTHORNE Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.... MAYER HAWTHORNE I really don't like it when members of bands slag each other off in the press. 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NIGEL HAMILTON We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forc... NIGEL HAMILTON In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a mon... NIGEL HAMILTON I became an American on Nov. 4, 2010, at an elegant ceremony in Great Hall of Bullfinch's Faneui... NIGEL HAMILTON At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kep... NIGEL HAMILTON For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwi... NIGEL HAMILTON The White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietn... NIGEL HAMILTON As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in f... NIGEL HAMILTON President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter ... NIGEL HAMILTON Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on... NIGEL HAMILTON The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already ove... NIGEL HAMILTON For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Phi... NIGEL HAMILTON I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous... NIGEL HAMILTON Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - ber... NIGEL HAMILTON We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like... NIGEL HAMILTON I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization. NIGEL FARAGE We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free. NIGEL FARAGE I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best... NIGEL MANSELL To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. NIGEL LAWSON Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people. NIGEL SHORT I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rus... NIGEL MANSELL Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who... NIGEL HAMILTON Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia. NIGEL HAMILTON