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Related It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much ... DAVID GUTERSON No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no ma... BILL PARCELLS We've got guys who aren't wrapping guys up... No matter how hard you hit them, you've st... TONY DUNGY No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It do... JIM VALVANO It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity. ALEX KAPRANOS I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if yo... ABBY WAMBACH No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you've got a series, you never do. Som... DAVID MORSE It doesn't matter if you're winning or losing. You've got to be the same guy; you've... CARSON WENTZ In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it does... 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TROY POLAMALU I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspect... STEVE CASE If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort... JEREMY CLARKSON In life, you're going to have a lot of problems. Everybody's got problems. Some is worse tha... TOM BENSON If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose. CHARLES BUKOWSKI No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always f... CASSANDRA CLARE I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it... SPIKE JONZE You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast. GABBY DOUGLAS How many people do you know who've had their dream come true? You're looking at one. JIM VALVANO No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is ... HELENA BONHAM CARTER Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to sa... D. H. LAWRENCE Any time you're dealing with an ankle, you've got to run, you've got to cut, you've ... CALVIN JOHNSON I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your lif... BOB RICHARDS Each year, you've got to talk about it more and more, you've got to have programs. You'r... CALVIN JOHNSON Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good r... STEPHEN CHOW You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you... BENJAMIN JOWETT Making it to the NFL is a huge accomplishment. Making it in the NFL is a huge accomplishment, but I ... 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AARON RODGERS If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, b... PETE TOWNSHEND If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much. IMELDA MARCOS You've got to do what's right, or what you think is right. And you've got to make tough ... ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA You've got to bring it. You've got to make sure people feel the energy you're trying to ... CHAD KELLY How does one gain confidence? It's just the repetitive nature of telling you how good you are. H... JIMMY WALKER We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the P... CATHERINE BELL You've got to figure out how you're going to come in and significantly impact and redefine a... AUDREY MACLEAN I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working. DANA PLATO Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring. FRED WILLARD The person who lets them get you down, any kind of problem, is the person that fades out. So you'... TOM BENSON I've had a relatively charmed life. I loved to be out in the city. New York was my town. I'v... ALEC BALDWIN Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sh... DAVID DUFFIELD It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resen... A. PHILIP RANDOLPH I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. Yo... JONATHAN WINTERS If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired y... OZWALD BOATENG You've always got to have that inner confidence in you. That's where it all starts. You'... SCOTT TOLZIEN At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not. LARRY HOVIS There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for... WALE Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you'... CARLY PATTERSON Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some moveme... GABRIELLE GIFFORDS You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it. DANIEL CRAIG I don't know how many companies I've bought in my life, and most of them I've bought fro... OLAV THON I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass ... DYLAN MORAN Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. ... ADAM ANT Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can try... MIKE NICHOLS Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing. THEO ROSSI And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you'r... CLINT HOWARD If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this i... JACK KEVORKIAN I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then ... STEVE BURNS You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon,... NANCY WERLIN You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for... BILLIE HOLIDAY If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, ... MARCUS DU SAUTOY It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their sea... OWEN HART We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and... JOHN LENNON I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, ... ALBERT BROOKS Hollywood is a roulette wheel. Each project dictates what's going to happen for you next, and it... ADAM GREEN You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fi... HOWARD STERN When you're headlining, people are paying to come see you specifically. It's a different kin... J. COLE If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot. OSCAR ROBERTSON When you walk into a doctor's office, you've got to have the same attitude you would about a... TOM BROKAW Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to... MEL BROOKS It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career... CALVIN JOHNSON The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it... PAT OLIPHANT If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention. SIMON COWELL People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 t... JEREMY RENNER Whether you're a quarterback and you just threw a pick, or you're a corner and you just got ... STEVE MARIUCCI The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're... VINCENT D'ONOFRIO As long as I get those running shoes on, then there's no turning back, and I have to go for that... KIM RAVER I've learned it's really important to work hard and keep your family and friends close. You&... CARRIE UNDERWOOD I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one. ISAIAH THOMAS You've either got it or you haven't. LIAM GALLAGHER
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