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Related I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career ... KENDALL JENNER People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthf... MORGAN FREEMAN When I'm not on stage, I'm kind of shy. If you see me and I don't say much, don't th... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thin... ALICE EVE You know, I'm not really any good at working out when people are flirting with me. And I think I... JOSH HARTNETT I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed ab... LARRY DAVID The world that I am coming from, hip-hop, is so regurgitated and repetitive that some people are use... KID CUDI I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are conce... KURT COBAIN Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's wha... PATTI SMITH I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and sa... DAMIEN RICE I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not tryi... STEVEN WRIGHT I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in doing my job and doing it well, and th... AJ LEE I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't ... EVA GREEN I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don... VICTORIA BECKHAM People in Scunthorpe don't care what I say. And I'm not camp, either. I'm a geezer. I... BOY GEORGE I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don'... SIA I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them ... BARBARA BOXER I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. ... MUHAMMAD ALI This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because... COLIN KAEPERNICK I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to ... HANNAH MURRAY I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don... HANNAH WARE When I'm rapping, like, a turn up song, I'm thinking about what the people want to hear; thi... TINK I personally like to talk to people when I'm not doing a scene, still acting as if I'm in Go... CAMREN BICONDOVA I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobb... IRWIN ROSE I know I have a reputation that is not so flattering, but I guess I owe it to just being a private p... SHAHID KAPOOR I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my e... WHITNEY HOUSTON I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I... JACLYN SMITH I'm no intellect. I'm no preacher. I'm an entertainer. And If I don't get up there a... BARBARA MANDRELL Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what... SHIA LABEOUF I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom. DAVID SUCHET I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm... DONNY OSMOND I know what you're doing, though." "I'm glad somebody knows what I'm about, because I see... GRACE BURROWES I don't see myself as a hero because what I'm doing is self-interested: I don't want to ... EDWARD SNOWDEN I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot. CYNDI LAUPER I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interest... MADONNA CICCONE I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if i... LAURA VANDERVOORT I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?... CARMEN KASS I'm not against anybody. I'm really not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic. I hone... MIKE HUCKABEE I'm told I'm an incredible flirt because I don't know I'm doing it. I don't want... SUZI QUATRO If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether ... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I just want to do good material. If I'm right for it, and it connects with me, and the material ... SAM UNDERWOOD I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's no... CHRIS STAPLETON Modelling isn't something I'm doing to prove people wrong. It's something I'm doing ... KENDALL JENNER I don't know what it is about me that gets cast in specific roles. Some people would say, 'Y... GRACE PARK People say to me, 'You don't seem that interested in interviews.' Well, you know, I'... ANDY MURRAY I don't think because I hang out with enough black people, I'm gonna turn black. What kind o... KHLOE KARDASHIAN I don't follow fashion. I need people to style me because I'm pretty clueless about it and I... MEGAN FOX I haven't been brought down because people are focused on who I'm dating, what I'm eatin... GARRETT CLAYTON It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel... KYRA SEDGWICK Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'... KRISTEN STEWART I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing th... RICH LITTLE I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit rec... LADY GAGA When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing... ADAM RAPP If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested i... GEORGE SAUNDERS I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it t... ROY LICHTENSTEIN I'm not a camp, throwaway queen; I'm not in Neverland. I'm not Jennifer Lopez with three... PETE BURNS I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on se... KRISTEN STEWART I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country th... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doin... JAMES DURBIN I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. ... JOHN LOGAN I don't want fame as far as the tweeting or the image of it. But, the idea of being famous is ac... EMILY MEADE I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than... KACEY MUSGRAVES I'm far from being reclusive. I have 30- or 40-year friendships that I prefer to meeting new peo... KIRK KERKORIAN I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that soun... EMMANUELLE BEART Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I&... NAS I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, 'Do what I do.' I think it&... KIM KARDASHIAN I don't think I've done any profound work yet... People ask me, 'How would you want to b... BIPASHA BASU I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I... COLUMBUS SHORT Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's los... SADE ADU Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify... BILLY UNGER I don't really care if people think I'm good-looking or not; it doesn't define me as a p... GENESIS RODRIGUEZ Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want. CHRIS KIRKPATRICK When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been... KURT VONNEGUT Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm ... CAROLINE WOZNIACKI I'm 24. I think when I was 18, 19, I had a problem with it because I wanted to look older and mo... ALISON LOHMAN I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am serious... DAVID BOWIE I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea ... SOPHIE OKONEDO When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don&... TA-NEHISI COATES I try to be as real and honest about everything and very genuine with people and say, 'Listen, I... TIM TEBOW I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical c... BERNIE MAC I'm not particularly needy, and I'm not particularly anxious. I don't look for a directo... CATE BLANCHETT People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the Unit... GAEL GARCIA BERNAL There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'... LOUIS C. K. I'm a normal person. You say something about me, I'm going to say something back, funny or n... AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just tha... CHANCE THE RAPPER My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put mysel... LINDSAY LOHAN Being in Los Angeles is this brutal awakening, where I feel not good enough as soon as I walk into a... MARY LAMBERT I don't want to be satisfied with where I'm at or happy about what I've done. I want to ... PATRICK KANE I'm conservative, and people know where I stand. They can trust me to do what I say I'm goin... SHARRON ANGLE Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic... MICHAEL EISNER People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's... CARLY POPE Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of th... RACHAEL TAYLOR I don't really care about a song or lyrics; I'm really just interested in the way people emp... ERIK HASSLE I know what I'm like when I don't have a project coming up, and that's the mode I'm ... ALLISON WILLIAMS You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA I don't like getting myself in hot water. But suddenly I find that every minute I have to stop a... JOANNE WOODWARD If people don't think I can fall into what the norm is, that's their problem and not mine. I... PETE BURNS Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it o... ELI PARISER I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think... FAITH EVANS I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going o... NATE DIAZ
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CHARLES EVERS The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to cont... CHARLES DARWIN I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much belove... CHARLES DARWIN Without speculation there is no good and original observation. CHARLES DARWIN The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is impor... CHARLES DARWIN It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most resp... CHARLES DARWIN It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong'... CHARLES DARWIN ...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance. CHARLES DARWIN I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find o... CHARLES LAMB The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown
To saints whose lives are better than his own. CHARLES CHURCHILL Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. CHARLES ELIOT You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it. CHARLES BUXTON Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, wor... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each ot... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear ... CHARLES SPURGEON Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, u... CHARLES BURNEY She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book. CHARLES LAMB Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929 I am disposed to say gra... CHARLES LAMB These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accide... CHARLES LAMB We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. CHARLES LAMB The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion hu... CHARLES COLTON Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press. CHARLES JAMES Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life. CHARLES LAMB I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. CHARLES DEGAULLE Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterint... CHARLES BASS The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the int... CHARLES SUMNER The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. CHARLES SUMNER How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of... CHARLES LINDBERGH We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true,... CHARLES KINGSLEY Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- fr... CHARLES KINGSLEY Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - fr... CHARLES KINGSLEY He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. CHARLES LAMB Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creat... CHARLES LAMB I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and th... CHARLES LAMB Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bra... CHARLES STUDD Because the fees associated with a reverse mortgage are high, such loans make sense only for borrowe... CHARLES DUHIGG In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they n... CHARLES DUHIGG Because reverse mortgages do not require borrowers to make immediate repayments, the interest charge... CHARLES DUHIGG Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. CHARLES DICKENS