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He is one of the few athletes that I really... HENRIK LUNDQVIST I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of va... LIEV SCHREIBER I am the Doctor of Democracy. I am America's Truth Detector. And as the Doctor of Democracy, the... RUSH LIMBAUGH I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a 'fairy tale,' but I really loved 'Mulan,&... LILY COLE I'm old, I'm used to crummy service, I'm trained to get crummy service. To me, the fact ... MARK V. HURD It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just k... TARYN MANNING I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really ... MIKE TROUT I think of myself as kind of a hippy. Everyone around me says that's not the impression they get... CECILY STRONG In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get. GAYLE GARDNER Sometimes it doesn't work out how you want it to. I really put down the best run I could. Sometimes ... MASON AGUIRRE As you can see, you get really dirty. But you know you worked if you get dirty. CAROLYN CLARK I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they fee... LARRY HOLMES They don't get upset with each other. They get upset with themselves because they want to win, reall... DOUG HOWERY Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you ha... LOUIS C. K. I don't really care if people get upset. I think I'm doing my job if people get upset; I wan... EMMA CAULFIELD I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, beca... NATE RUESS Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometim... BETHANY HAMILTON Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on. ISAAC MIZRAHI I'm working on my mental toughness, because I get really upset sometimes. And that's what helped me ... 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RAFAEL NADAL No one really knows what I'm really like, and you won't unless you spend a day with me, or i... AVRIL LAVIGNE I must have a God-given talent, which is the ability to multitask, plus I have great retention. I... TILMAN J. FERTITTA I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinio... ANGELINA JOLIE Sometimes I get really down on myself for not having the exact career I want, but it's ok as lon... EMILY MEADE You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset peo... ZAYN MALIK It makes you also realize, 'OK, I'm excited to play tennis, and I work really hard to be the... KIM CLIJSTERS Imports are coming in pretty much as fast as they can. Even if it takes a while to get production ba... MARK WAGGONER Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limit... FRANCES O'GRADY Yeah, I was surprised. It doesn't upset me. I'm kind of disappointed, but when you let things like t... LEVI STUKES You can get something really really fabulous. I just tasted the Pol Roger Winston Churchill 1998 and... JOE SCALICE I inherited them, so I got it like that. But I hear you can actually get dimples for a certain price... CAMILLE GUATY This is one I've really wanted to get because it's bugging me. NICK SIMMONS I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was. A. J. FOYT I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a... TINA FEY I think when you get on with the actors that you're working with, even if you do have really int... SAOIRSE RONAN Sometimes you play really well and lose anyway, so I am never upset about that. JENNIFER BARRETTA If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it i... BOB SEGER I want my kids to have passion for life, to really have a passion for life. I think when you have a ... STEVE NASH I don't like staying in hotels. I like to be in my own bed. San Diego as a city is really awesom... KRISTEN BELL Kids can get bored just looking at things. But if they can touch it, throw it, pull it or push it, t... ADAM WOODWORTH It's kind of nerve-wracking, but you get used to it. I like the tense situations. It really doesn't ... DARRELL FISHERBAUGH I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I... DAN HILL Duke really had a fantastic crowd and made it tough for us to get a win on the road. It was a great ... BRAD DANCER I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working wi... JOSEPH MAWLE I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in th... BLYTHE DANNER I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself a... CARL LEWIS Of course you always think you can get there, but I didn't really know if this might be a possibilit... DOUG APLIN I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectio... MARY PIERCE Most of the time, I've got my kids with me, so I'm not as prone to meeting people. And then,... CHRISTIE BRINKLEY I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure ... DANA DELANY I am really proud of the kids. We were not hitting the open shots tonight but we kept fighting and s... GARY ANDREWS She really needed to do that and be part of that as a family. I think that really helped a lot, but ... LINDA BURDETTE A lot of people, sometimes they're so stuck on, 'I gotta get married, I gotta get married.... CAMILA ALVES I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn&... RYAN REYNOLDS I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going thro... NIKKI SIXX I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets peopl... DYLAN MORAN I hate alarms. If they go off I get really tetchy. I hate them. They just get me going, I'm hype... KIRSTY GALLACHER If I don't have cereal on the bus, I'm going to be really upset. SHAWN MENDES If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's jus... CANDICE SWANEPOEL I take a lot of pride in (not walking hitters). Early in the year, it was really getting me in troub... DAN HAREN I think the biggest misconception about me is people really don't know who I really am. They see... NICOLE POLIZZI I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor m... WILLOW SMITH I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I've ever written was... 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ROGER MOORE Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. ROGER CARAS Cats don't like change without their consent. ROGER CARAS I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them. ROGER CARAS Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walk... ROGER CARAS If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but ther... ROGER CARAS Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter. ROGER EBERT Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirat... ROGER EBERT My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.' ROGER EBERT By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of... ROGER EBERT Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate. ROGER EBERT Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted. ROGER EBERT It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people. ROGER EBERT I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the pa... ROGER EBERT And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and dis... ROGER EBERT We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking. ROGER EBERT It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius. ROGER EBERT I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the... ROGER EBERT I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. ROGER EBERT Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually abo... ROGER EBERT No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough. ROGER EBERT Every great film should seem new every time you see it. ROGER EBERT Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusi... ROGER EBERT Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natu... ROGER EBERT I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand t... ROGER EBERT Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances. ROGER EBERT One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open t... ROGER EBERT To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must t... ROGER EBERT Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Ra... ROGER EBERT There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase... ROGER EBERT Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. ROGER EBERT That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmon... ROGER MCGUINN Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. ROGER MILLER The reason I'm a Nixonite is because of his indestructibility and resilience. He never quit. ROGER STONE The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men... ROGER EBERT Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against t... ROGER WICKER