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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.


Barry McGuigan

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ANN MARIE BUERKLE I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
ORSON WELLES I've spent all my life playing roles that illustrious people have played before me.
GERALDINE MCEWAN I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time stu...
DAN BROWN I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.
JULIANA HATFIELD I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.
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JULIAN LENNON She's scared. She's upset. She's not wanting to leave my side and I don't blame her one bit.
LISA WILSON The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.
ARSENE WENGER I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
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GERRY COONEY I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s...
MAYA LIN I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life.
SERENA WILLIAMS When you've dealt with real-life issues, dealing with business issues is not that hard.
RAM SHRIRAM Beliefs are our foundation and our guiding compass, navigating us through life.
KIM HA CAMPBELL I've been involved in sport right through my life.
LYNN DAVIES One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spe...
ELLEN MCLAUGHLIN I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career he...
RON SANTO Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've...
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O. J. SIMPSON The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my...
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RAE CARSON I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And ye...
ALISON GOPNIK I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don'...
FANNIE FLAGG I've spent my entire career being a satirist.
AL FRANKEN Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.
EMMITT SMITH I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten ...
CHRIS PRATT When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to und...
MICHAEL PALIN I've always had self-belief, though my sensitive side has never been fully appreciated. For ever...
PAUL WELLER For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I ha...
RICHARD FORD To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done a...
BARBARA WALTERS Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more impor...
OSCAR NIEMEYER While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.
JESSE JACKSON I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.
SHIA LABEOUF I've sung other people's music all my life.
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SALLY SCHNEIDER I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because ...
IAN MACKAYE I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.
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ALAN BENNETT I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in ...
BUBBA SPARXXX I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 m...
STELLA YOUNG I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them ...
JIM YONG KIM I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You'...
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LANA WOOD I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cu...
ROBERT FISK He touched many people through the years, ... He spent his life helping people.
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JENNY SLATE My first album is a lot of my personal experiences. I wanted people to relate to what I've been ...
REBECCA FERGUSON I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment.
JOEL SALATIN I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievab...
BRYAN CLAY 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've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push mysel...
SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my li...
TRENT REZNOR I've spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.
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LAURA BENANTI I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He i...
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LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
GARY SHEFFIELD You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that'...
CHARLES OLSON I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried...
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CONDOLEEZZA RICE I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.
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MEGYN KELLY I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
DANNY BOYLE I've been singing since I was 16 because I love it - I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There&...
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STEVE NASH I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just play...
DOUGLAS BOOTH I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displ...
ANA CASTILLO One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many pe...
ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF I spent my last [money ] trying to come here, and I was really upset that I had to turn around and g...
GEORGE JACKSON I've always had that attitude about my career: it's something that I do, but it's not my...
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.
JOE PATERNO I've got my life. I'm very serious about my business. I've got my family. And I've g...
ERNIE ELS My government is always very cautious with such sensitive issues as Syria-Lebanon.
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BARTON GELLMAN I've been more single than not in my short life.
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KERRY WASHINGTON I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big i...
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BARRY SCHWARTZ Running back was always my favorite position.
BARRY SANDERS You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up ...
BARRY SANDERS I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
BARRY SANDERS I like retirement.
BARRY SANDERS It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the r...
BARRY SANDERS I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I...
BARRY SANDERS Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 seas...
BARRY SANDERS I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate t...
BARRY SANDERS My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her co...
BARRY SANDERS I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so w...
BARRY SANDERS Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most im...
BARRY SANDERS The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has le...
BARRY SANDERS I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, y...
BARRY SANDERS As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
BARRY SANDERS I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always staye...
BARRY SANDERS Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
BARRY SANDERS Life doesn't stop with football.
BARRY SANDERS I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoy...
BARRY SANDERS Let's just win it and go home.
BARRY SANDERS My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart throu...
BARRY SANDERS