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ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do so... BILLY WEST I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL I’ve had to work hard for a lot of things in my life. I remember being told I probably wouldn’t ... TOM HIDDLESTON I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I could... DAK PRESCOTT For me, I've always been Justin Trudeau, son of. All my life I've had to know I was carrying... JUSTIN TRUDEAU I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world. 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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I've had great opportunities to show different sides of myself, but the challenge will always be... KELLI O'HARA My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expe... NANCY KERRIGAN We both know... that soon everything is going to end... ... This chat will be in the... DEYTH BANGER I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally,... W. AVERELL HARRIMAN Because I had my family, I felt like I could be a bird and fly and experience and do. Because I had ... GISELE BUNDCHEN I've always been too hard on myself to behave like I've arrived or even to enjoy whatever su... NICOLE SCHERZINGER I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I... PADDY CONSIDINE “My to do list is so long, my grandchildren will have to finish it.” ROSS ELDER I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and en... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I... RAND PAUL I want to show little girls that the possibilities are endless. That's my goal - to not only do ... NICKI MINAJ The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS But when I called them, they told me I couldn't just simply sign up for the race. I had to prove mys... DAVID GOGGINS My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.' QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ... TROY POLAMALU Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England. ELIZABETH I (SPOKEN TO HER PARLAMENT) It was important for me to get in. I didn't show up to practice yesterday and I just had to prove my... KAMERON HANDY I've always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just s... DANIELLA ALONSO I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in busi... GABE KAPLAN People are always coming up to me, thinking I've got some magic wand that can make them a star a... DR. DRE Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they m... MARLON WAYANS I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then ... ALEXIS ARGUELLO I knew I had to show everybody that I could excel at something. But I didn't know what. STEVE PREFONTAINE I've always had a very clear vision of what I wanted to do. LEON BRIDGES I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite ... BETH DITTO I have always said I've had a big personality, and I've always said I'm a pushy broad, a... CHRISTINE QUINN I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt... VERONICA WEBB Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me... BO DEREK As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor wo... BEN VEREEN I definitely felt like I had to get back out there. I had the one carry where I got hit in the knee,... ERIC SHELTON Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what... BILL BURR Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn... REBA MCENTIRE I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything i... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I came in with a chip on my shoulder. I wanted to prove to myself and the coaches missing out on me ... GREG ESLINGER My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I wa... ADEPERO ODUYE Basically, he grew up doing everything for himself, and I think this was all to show us he could do ... HAYDER HASSAN My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that's what I've a... JAMES ARTHUR I've always been able to control myself. If I go back down and the Tigers find something I have to w... JUSTIN VERLANDER I've been doing everything I could possibly do except for putting the pads on, ... 'I had to make my... TEDY BRUSCHI I didn't know that I could do a talk show. 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BERTRAND RUSSELL Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privileg... BERTRAND RUSSELL The women's team dominance in the throws really set the tone for the squad. For the most part the di... AARON RUSSELL A couple injuries and sickness prevented the women's team from getting off to a better start. If we ... AARON RUSSELL We believe he was using jumper cables to start his tractor when the accident occurred. AARON RUSSELL Someone had come in to them and reported they had seen somebody digging what they thought was a grav... AARON RUSSELL With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud w... BERTRAND RUSSELL I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the ... BERTRAND RUSSELL The kids are saying 'Make Love, Not War', and I'm beginning to think they're right. For war co... NIPSEY RUSSELL To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely... BERTRAND RUSSELL Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. BERTRAND RUSSELL The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be hap... BERTRAND RUSSELL If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more tha... BERTRAND RUSSELL For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and fem... BERTRAND RUSSELL If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun... BERTRAND RUSSELL The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge. BERTRAND RUSSELL The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by wearine... BERTRAND RUSSELL What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night an... BERTRAND RUSSELL We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act l... DORA RUSSELL Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endure... BERTRAND RUSSELL There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge. BERTRAND RUSSELL There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge. BERTRAND RUSSELL The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing ev... BERTRAND RUSSELL One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of p... BERTRAND RUSSELL When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ROSALIND RUSSELL It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate... BERTRAND RUSSELL Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. BERTRAND RUSSELL All movements go too far , and this is certainly true of the movement toward subjectivity, whi... BERTRAND RUSSELL When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will sea... BERTRAND RUSSELL