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Without the illness I would never have been forced to re-evaluate my life and my career. I know if I... LANCE ARMSTRONG That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a...
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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that ... RUSSELL BAKER I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn'...
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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that ... RUSSELL BAKER
During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally ... TREVOR NOAH I had hoped we would never see the NHL owners and their commissioner do the unthinkable and cancel a...
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I had laryngitis twice and I had to cancel a few shows and replace them with other ones, and that wa... MICK JAGGER
I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage ... KEVIN SPACEY If I could make a dream real, I would not kill anything unless it could never be changed at heart.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. OCTAVIA BUTLER
It gave me a chance to re-evaluate my life and my career. Cancer certainly gives things a new perspe... LANCE ARMSTRONG
I would never put my own personal marriage on television, NICOLE RICHIE I would never sign up to film my personal life.
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BILL SIMMONS I drive a Nissan Versa and would never spend real money on a car because I destroy things.
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI
I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence. JEANNETTE WALLS I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Ell...
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I finished 'America America,' and I knew I had to write another book, not just for personal ... ETHAN CANIN
When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ... ATTICUS FINCH When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ...
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When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ... NEIL GAIMAN The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.
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I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make? KATRINA KAIF
Had life not given me reasons to grieve, I would never have known the healing power of a hug. RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
I was never a Certified Public Accountant... I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was nev... BOB NEWHART
Hutchison's Law:Any occurrence requiring undivided attention will be accompanied by a compelling dis... ROBERT BLOCH
Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being t... JURGEN KLINSMANN
Until I realized: this long expanse of free time to rekindle friendships is not real. We will never ... MINDY KALING
I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poe... JIMMY CARTER I had never been allowed to go on tour with my husband George Harrison, so had no idea what to expec...
PATTIE BOYD
My parents were in Vaudeville, in musical. And I would tour with them and had a couple of wonderfull... JULIE ANDREWS
I do or die, but I never cancel out. PAT NIXON
The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention... WILL SCHWALBE
If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and ... PETER STEELE I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, beca...
DEBBIE GIBSON
I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it. RIVER PHOENIX I always had a separate life than just my work. I built my own family. I have my own hobbies and int...
RICKY SCHRODER I hit everything so hard this year. I had the biggest tour I've ever done, I had a record to finish ...
KENNY CHESNEY
I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, b... BARNEY FRANK
We all had jobs that were just fronts. I felt like I was in the mob. I had a job, but that wasn'... JESSICA ST. CLAIR I have great integrity with my congregation, ... I would never take their money and use them to buil...
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JAMES HITCHCOCK There's no rule that says you have to make records constantly, like clockwork, to continue being...
DARON MALAKIAN People's attention spans don't run too long these days.
DARON MALAKIAN If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.
DARON MALAKIAN I don't think when I'm doing music. Things just happen. I've even taken my clothes off w...
DARON MALAKIAN Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that...
DARON MALAKIAN System of a Down are one of the most misunderstood bands around. I mean, Armenian rock? What the fuc...
DARON MALAKIAN I'm not very happy. I'm frustrated with human beings. I'm the guy who just wants to smac...
DARON MALAKIAN I have no interest in murder, and I have no interest in people dying, ... But I'm interested in peop...
DARON MALAKIAN As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the dru...
DARON MALAKIAN In the Middle East in the summertime, to keep cool, a lot of people sleep on the rooftops.
DARON MALAKIAN I guess you'd say I'm a gearhead. It's not just guitars; I have five or six drum sets, a...
DARON MALAKIAN Why don't presidents fight the war?/ Why do they always send the poor? ... B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own ...
DARON MALAKIAN [As for the group's political bite, there's no greater example than the recent single, B.Y.O.B ., in...
DARON MALAKIAN Everybody's going to the party ... dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine.
DARON MALAKIAN It's an instrumental. You know how anal I am about that word. [I hate] when people call classical mu...
DARON MALAKIAN We don't belong to any one scene.
DARON MALAKIAN When we were a club band, we always used to say, 'Man, if we ever see success, we'd like to open doo...
DARON MALAKIAN I just wrote the song sitting in my car waiting for my girlfriend. That's about it, man. You will kn...
DARON MALAKIAN What we do is just all over. What [singer Serj Tankian] is playing on the keyboard sounds like the [...
DARON MALAKIAN I like structuring verses, choruses, but sometimes the verses might be a tango and the choruses migh...
DARON MALAKIAN I was always searching for something bigger, faster and better, and Slayer came up with that.
DARON MALAKIAN I played for about two seconds in the game. No one knew who I was. They were looking at me like, 'Wh...
DARON MALAKIAN I'll always be a member of System of a Down. That will never change.
DARON MALAKIAN I just think religion is something... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it ...
DARON MALAKIAN I always want to grow and top myself.
DARON MALAKIAN System of a Down is the music that I wanted to buy but couldn't find at the store. It's the ...
DARON MALAKIAN A lot of MTV's programming is hip-hop based, and the messages are usually all about bling bling....
DARON MALAKIAN A lot of times, I don't feel responsible for the songs myself. But that's my job or my place...
DARON MALAKIAN Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.
DARON MALAKIAN I am depressed sometimes, but it's not what keeps me at home or focused on work.
DARON MALAKIAN I'll be honest with you: politically, I have no issue with people, but my beef sometimes is with...
DARON MALAKIAN I ain't got no beef with Obama.
DARON MALAKIAN I don't understand some of the music I hear on MTV or the radio, because they don't mention ...
DARON MALAKIAN Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'
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ROBERT BLOCH
I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence. JERRY SPINELLI I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful compute...
BRENDAN FRASER My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that re...
DAVID MORRELL The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. FLANNERY O'CONNOR My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never...
JENNIFER JONES
I would never put my close friends or a real relationship on a show. KRISTIN CAVALLARI Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour.
ANDY PARTRIDGE By a lot of people's standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I ...
CATHERINE TATE My body has gone into things and done things that I never would have imagined ever in life.
LISA RINNA
My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the chur... ROBERT H. SCHULLER I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought...
RORY KENNEDY My secret is simple. I have a very short attention span, and writing lots of things fast appeases th...
SHILOH WALKER I have two dogs and a parrot, so they require a lot of attention. They deserve it.
CASSIE STEELE
I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unle... CAM NEWTON
