When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
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Related When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know the... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I'm not happy if other people aren't enjoying themselves, so I try to lighten the mood as mu... TOM WESTON-JONES So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about ... EMILY BLUNT I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happ... JACK MA When I get to 40, I'm going to re-evaluate everything and then go from there. Because when I get... JASON DAY I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head. KURT COBAIN I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. ... JOHN LOGAN When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm u... NATE HOLLAND I always feel like I wasn't the best trainer, because I'm really good at teaching people stu... DANIEL BRYAN I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don'... SIA If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long a... MICHAEL J. FOX I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position,... BART STUPAK I've accomplished so many things in basketball. I financially secured my kids' life and thei... ALLEN IVERSON Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-ex... RAQUEL WELCH I'm happy that I can focus on my body a little bit. I'm not happy to get surgery, but I'... DWYANE WADE I try to get in people's heads. My job is to get the ball, so if I'm talking trash to an O-l... MALIK JACKSON I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing... LINUS TORVALDS I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not. FANNIE HURST And you know, I said yesterday, you know, you know, if they're not going to - if the feds aren... JAN BREWER I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I c... BJORK I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my... PAT BURNS I have mood swings, but I'm sure people in England have that, too. Me and my friends, we're ... JENS LEKMAN Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're ... XAVIER DOLAN I'm not happy to be here. I'm just happy to be! JIM VALVANO I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I wa... JACKIE EVANCHO When I'm rapping, like, a turn up song, I'm thinking about what the people want to hear; thi... TINK When I get time off, my brain is just, that's it. I sit. I veg. People will think that I'm u... STEPHEN AMELL I collect records. And cats. I don't have any cats right now. But if I'm taking a walk and I... HARUKI MURAKAMI I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I... COLUMBUS SHORT Now listen lads, I'm not happy with our tackling. We're hurting them but they keep getting u... JOHN B. KEANE There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you&... NATALIE PORTMAN As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're lau... LARRY THE CABLE GUY I'm not extremely outgoing, but I'm average, I think. When people meet me they'll say, &... ALESSIA CARA I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy w... ADELE There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' B... TOM ODELL I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do... ORNETTE COLEMAN We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? W... BEBE REXHA I love watching reality shows - I'm up to date with 'America's Next Top Model' and I... EMMA BUNTON I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thin... GREGORY MAGUIRE I don't get bothered by people saying what they say. I'm a happy person and I'm happy wi... ASHLEE SIMPSON It doesn't matter about money and fame and whatever. I really don't care about that. My thin... ATTICUS SHAFFER I'm definitely happy with the progression of my career. I'm glad I didn't jump to stardo... BRITTANY CURRAN Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter.... TOM STOPPARD I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'T... ZARA LARSSON When someone says, 'I'm not political,' I feel like what they're saying is, 'I o... JULIANNE MOORE I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see t... DAVID ANTIN I'm just living in Eau Claire, not really leaving for much. I go to the farmers market, go to th... JUSTIN VERNON I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they... BENJAMIN WALKER Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm ... CAROLINE WOZNIACKI I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm ... IAN RANKIN I'm happy to not know what I think about stuff; I'm happy to change my mind. But it's re... MARLON JAMES Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I believe a lot of players that start to think about money - 'Oh my goodness; I'm up for a n... LADAINIAN TOMLINSON I'm just happy I'm not a phony. MIKE TYSON Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so ... NATALIE GOLDBERG I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I w... NATALIE MASSENET I can't watch 'Glee' because I get so jealous that I'm not there with them doing it ... JANINA GAVANKAR As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'you don't cry because it's over, you're... PAT BURNS If you're not happy before you're successful, you're going to be miserable when you do b... SINBAD It's not about success. Whatever happens, it doesn't matter. I would like to not go bankrupt... DAN AUERBACH In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, ... SEBASTIAN THRUN I don't really talk too much about my personal life, but I'm happy. BRYAN GREENBERG I just want the fans to be happy, and if they're happy, I'm happy. And yes, most definitely,... JACOB BATALON It's hard for me to be happy because I'm always worried about something going awry or what c... LISA MARIE PRESLEY I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think ab... EMILY DESCHANEL I don't like talking about which bits I like or don't like about my body. Everybody has some... TWIGGY I'm enjoying my years, I'm enjoying my life, I'm enjoying my family. I'm just happy ... SHARON STONE I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal w... IGGY AZALEA Some people are just quiet - they don't need to be talking all the time and aren't extrovert... CHIRLANE MCCRAY I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It'... LARRY THE CABLE GUY Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be conta... EVANGELINE LILLY I am so happy to be alive. That's the one thing I'd like for people to know. Sometimes peopl... GEORGE FOREMAN I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that... MARY DOCTER All I do is have fun. When I'm not working, it's about making people laugh. I love making jo... DREW FULLER The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too... EDDIE SLOVIK Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're cry... EVAN DAVIS I've only had success when I'm not trying to. It's that weird thing where if you're ... MIKE POSNER I'm just happy to have my legs back, cause at one point in time, I wasn't even walking. STEFON DIGGS I didn't get my licence because I wasn't allowed to. But I haven't had a seizure for a l... HUGO WEAVING I am thinking about those things now. More so than all my friends - they're a lot older than me,... BILLIE PIPER I feel like when people judge me they're not judging me, because they don't know who I am. GISELE BUNDCHEN People go tanning because they like to feel tan. You feel more sexy when you're tan and I don... NICOLE POLIZZI I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it ... ANITA BROOKNER Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and wor... YUVRAJ SINGH I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pic... DOUGLAS COUPLAND I'm learning what I gotta do to get people hyped up. It doesn't matter even if they're n... KEVIN FEDERLINE You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm sp... NOEL GALLAGHER If you listen to most of my songs, the lyrics are pretty kind of dark, but I like to put it behind h... SHAMIR Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's ... JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT I think my confidence stems from my honesty. I'm brutally honest - about everything and even mys... ALIA BHATT I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they'... JOHN LYDON I don't really know what 'American' is. I know what Ukrainian is. We're happy Slavic... NINA ARIANDA I'm not great on the florals. I think you've got to wear what you're happy in and that i... MARY BERRY I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't r... CHARLIE HUNNAM I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a ... OLIVIA MUNN As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what peopl... FREDDIE HIGHMORE I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go... B. B. KING I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left ev... JIMMY CONNORS My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They... EVANNA LYNCH I'm already popular in my city. I was just trying to get rich. Man, I'm not gonna lie to you... LIL UZI VERT
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker, so an unsuccessful author turns critic PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy pow... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Fear not for the future, weep not for the past PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know the... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to belie... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive C... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY A dream has power to poison sleep. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within t... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY All Love is sweet. Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ev... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling ... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY No more let life divide what death can join together. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the ... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the pl... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyo... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Hence in solitude, or that deserted state when we are surrounded by human beings and yet they sympat... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY ... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kind... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Wealth and dominion fade into the mass Of the great sea of human right and wrong, When onc... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY And the Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Soul meets soul on lovers lips. PERCY SHELLEY We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away. WALKER PERCY You can get all A's and still flunk life. WALKER PERCY You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and techn... WALKER PERCY Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing abou... WALKER PERCY I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up a... BENJAMIN PERCY What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved ove... WALKER PERCY The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel agai... MAX PERCY I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern ... WALKER PERCY Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. PERCY ROSS He who gives while he lives, get to know where it goes. PERCY ROSS Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an o... PERCY ROSS The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. T... WALKER PERCY Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. WALKER PERCY