Ron Chernow
Related You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard. LAMARR WOODLEY TED WILLIAMS ANTONIN SCALIA If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my v... NOURIEL ROUBINI NATALIE GOLDBERG LUCILLE BALL I like to travel in jeans because I don't want to wallow around in my suit, you know? They cost ... LOUIE GOHMERT DAVID EDWARDS BEN CARSON FRANK CRANE Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there. CANDY CROWLEY I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to b... FRIDA GIANNINI SOPHIA AMORUSO I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I... DAN HILL ALAN ARKIN I think the more mediocre you are the better you do because people need to think you're their fr... KELLY BROOK VANILLA ICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that. LACEY CHABERT 'Monuments Men' is a movie... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folk... GRANT HESLOV Hopefully I don't annoy people too much. MISSY FRANKLIN Don't you find that the more you know, the more you don't know and can't ever learn beca... LARRY HAGMAN Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that th... LANGHORNE SLIM I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have a... TREVOR RABIN Don't let yourself be small because you want to fit in. KATHERINE LANGFORD WILL ROGERS I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don&... ZACK GREINKE Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself. ANDRES INIESTA CAMERON DIAZ If you look at the geographic variation in long-term unemployment, it's really striking. There a... KEVIN HASSETT FRANK OCEAN When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the... CASS ELLIOT CAITLYN JENNER ROBERT GRIFFIN III ELISHA CUTHBERT I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovabl... JULIE KAVNER I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's mu... JACK COLEMAN You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderfu... IMOGEN POOTS I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people wh... MATT WALSH It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with... EDDIE CAMPBELL JIM VALVANO ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not ve... DANIEL JOHNS I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because ... FRANK BLACK IAN MCKELLEN We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep... A. JAMES CLARK I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who ar... BARBARA MERTZ My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing... JAMES MARSTERS BENNY GREEN NORMAN VINCENT PEALE PETER DINKLAGE KEVIN HART JOHN MALKOVICH LUKE EVANS SEAN PARKER CARINE ROITFELD Even with a villain, you don't want him just to be some pockmarked punchbag. ALEX GIBNEY LORETTA YOUNG ADELE CLYDE EDGERTON I am not a fake. I am natural. I am just being Caster. I don't want to be someone I don't wa... CASTER SEMENYA JERRY LEWIS BOB DYLAN TILMAN J. FERTITTA My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny... MADDIE ZIEGLER ADAM GRANT LEONARD LAUDER They keep saying that beautiful is something a girl needs to be. But honestly? Forget that. Don’t ... NIKITA GILL I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I t... JUDE LAW We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't &#... CAROLYN CHUTE Things will come and go, and your life will go on, but you don't want to get too ahead of yourse... T. J. PERKINS I don't want to just be the best player. I want to be a great person, too. MIGUEL CABRERA You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them. AL LEITER Don't get too set on becoming an actor at an early age. I think that's where some people get... FREDDIE HIGHMORE Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part... KARA SWISHER I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I... TRACEY ULLMAN A lot of people ask me to produce or direct, but I don't think I'm qualified. It's hard ... GONG LI LIL WAYNE DAVID BOWIE ADAM SANDLER A lot of people don't want to grow up because it sucks. KATE HUDSON I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't... MISSY ELLIOTT I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even ... CHRISTOPHER PARKER DOUGLAS CONANT DONALD TRUMP VANESSA HUDGENS Some people do believe that any publicity is good publicly, but I don't. I would never want to b... KRITI SANON KOBE BRYANT ANDIE MACDOWELL We're often blinded by romance; we decide to not see things we don't want to see, and put up... GEORGIA KING I don't want to buy something that has harmed anyone. This is my absolutely strongest belief, an... BRUNELLO CUCINELLI PELE Girls don't poop, so don't claim you do. You can fart - because farting is funny - but we do... RYAN HANSEN CALVIN JOHNSON My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug... SUSAN HAYWARD Don't take too much advice. BEN SILBERMANN I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what... KELLI O'HARA I just don't think it's good to be around too much creative energy other than your own. JACK ANTONOFF PALOMA FAITH MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
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