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Related Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit... GERMANY KENT Edgar asked me, 'Do you know anything about John Lennon,' ... I said, 'I know everything about John ... DON SCARDINO My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianis... AMY TAN Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... GERMANY KENT You can't be jealous of someone else's results. You don't know the prayer, process, sacrifice, and w... GERMANY KENT I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang ... AL JARREAU Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger ... CRISS JAMI Whether you choose to move on from your struggles and enjoy life or waddle in your misery, life will... GERMANY KENT Age doesn't enter into it with me at all. I think you can do anything you want to do if you put your... BETTY STRICKLAND What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. CRAIG GROESCHEL There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their ... P. J. HARVEY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I surprised a local minister at the age of 10 when he asked me what I wanted to be and I told him th... GRAEME CLARK I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? ... JOE E. LEWIS She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON What can you say except Kurt was awesome? What their defense was giving us was the shot in the corne... GREG MCKENZIE I don't know exactly how it happened. From what I've been told, he caught a rut or something and par... DON WADDELL At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the ... SALLY MANN If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competi... TAKERU KOBAYASHI I'll tell you one thing. Being with you keeps a girl fit.' The Doctor beamed breathlessl... MIKE TUCKER Lack can greatly be the reason for our conscious and unconscious steps in life. Mind what you lack, ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Lack can greatly be the reasons for our conscious and unconscious steps in life. Mind what you lack,... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Where you are with what you have, what you can do. DHARM BABU No, I mean earlier. Where’d you go? You weren't here with me because no, nothing happened. I could... COLLEEN HOOVER So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never tol... CALISTA FLOCKHART The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. DAVID HASSELHOFF You know what, point the finger at the police for doing something incorrectly or not. BILL HEMMER This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. H... MELINA MARCHETTA I think music can be many things to many people. I think it should exist on many levels. I think tha... DAVE HOLLAND Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with... ALI TALIB Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with... ALI IBN ABI TALIB I think that's one of the greatest gifts you get if you're successful at something like musi... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. Be yourself, be who you can be. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I was cursed with age, really. You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and i... TOM FELTON Being able to function. Being at the peak of what you can do or at the peak of what you think you sh... AMERICAN SOCIETY I think you can start at birth by exposing kids to books and music that deal with money and money-re... SAM RENICK With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on n... SAMMI HANRATTY He'll never be here for me to grow old with. He was my life. He was my love. He was my heart and sou... ARMY SGT. From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of... DANNY BROWN How far you think you go get with just selling your ass to mens magazines and music videos? Not far ... NERISSA IRVING Doctor, doctor, my hair's coming out.Can you give me something to keep it in?Certainly - how about a... UNKNOWN Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. MARGARET MITCHELL Only you can make this right. Show me, not with words, but with action, that this is what you want a... KELLY KNIGHT I remember my first bullpen session with him. He was throwing the ball all over, and afterward he as... LEO MAZZONE The country has to get together and has to do something about this. It reminds me of what happened l... RICKY MARTIN I think I'm losing it—I don't know what's happening, what happened, but I look at you, I look at y... ALEXANDRA BRACKEN You can't hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the tast... MICHELLE HODKIN My father happened to be a doctor, and though I loved and idealized him privately, professionally I ... RUDOLPH VALENTINO You've already made me cry countless times." I raised my middle finger to him slowly, and asked, "Do... PENELOPE DOUGLAS Ongea unachoweza kutenda. ENOCK MAREGESI For me, every single thing I do seems to be about the process of letting go because that's what ... JOHN GRANT We all have demons that were trying to fight; mine just happens to be you. ANMOL ANDORE I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanati... CYNTHIA OZICK 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON It cost nothing to think bigger than you are, BUT cost a fortune to think less of yourself. OLAWALE DANIEL What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour... I'm not in... CLAIRE DENIS At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money... JACK BRUCE I think when you're a fan of music - at least the way I've been a fan to artists that have r... MATISYAHU It's when you think of me that I have goosebumps there with you. ANTHONY T.HINCKS I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look... A. R. RAHMAN Signature film-making seems rather dull to me; it's about finding something you can do something... DAVID MACKENZIE Look, you can date whoever you want and I will totally support you. I am all about support. Support ... CASSANDRA CLARE The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back. MARLA MAPLES Someone once told me, "I know he's married, but I can't choose who I fall in love with." Perhaps so,... BJ MORIN When my son first started working, at age 16, I said, 'How would you like me to give you $1 million? BARBARA CHOWN I think when you're faced with a plight that's inescapable, and there's something you can do about i... JIMMY PAGE As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about... ERYKAH BADU I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I st... MANDY MOORE My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that '... CHELSEA CLINTON The Doctor: You betrayed me. You betrayed my trust, you betrayed our friendship, you betrayed everyt... DARK WATER (SERIES 8) Who are we to say getting incested or abused or violated or any of those things can’t have their p... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Be so good at what You do . . . Even those who hate You, or want to, wouldn't naturally have a... UFUOMA APOKI I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music. GARY COLE It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gav... SAMANTHA STOSUR When Milan spoke with me and told me about this guy, I never asked for any assurances. The chairman ... HARRY REDKNAPP My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother. WILMA RUDOLPH The Doctor: [aiming gun at the ceiling] Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put... STEVEN MOFFAT Unless you can point the finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong then you nev... HYMAN GEORGE RICKOVER Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been... ANNE LAMOTT I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, wit... ROBBIE WILLIAMS One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I ... MITCH ALBOM I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning abou... BEL POWLEY As far as me getting signed at my age, the chances are less than zero. But if you've got any kind of... LARRY POTTS If you care too much about what other people might think of you, then you will never think of, or ac... QUI VUONG (EMPOWERMENTALIST) If I lay here If I just lay here would you lie with me and just forget the world? SNOW PATROL I told myself a while back, 'Love what you do, but don't fall in love with what you do.'... NATHAN FILLION Live free or die! But once you think about it, you're angry at yourself, not Doctor Bennett. He's th... MINDY HANEY Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know ... DAVE BRUBECK Never compare yourself with others. Do the best you can with what you have from where you are...and ... LORRIN L. LEE Shigure: Perhaps I can offer some advice? ...You know, Tohru-kun, when you get anxiety about the fut... NATSUKI TAKAYA The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of... ERIK HASSLE So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, un... STEVEN MOFFAT The Doctor: This is bad, I don't like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you j... STEVEN MOFFAT Daniel Boulud told me at a young age, 'Whatever happens to you in your career, you're going ... JOHNNY IUZZINI What a doctor I’ve got—he’s really mixed up. Last week, he grabbed my knee and told me to coug... RODNEY DANGERFIELD The process got abused, ... So what do you do about it? Do you become cynical and turn your back on ... DON MCLEAN As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me th... SUNIL MITTAL A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes ... BILL VIOLA Rose: My mum's here. The Doctor: Oh, that's just what I need! Don't you dare make this place do... RUSSELL T. DAVIES Fred is my Chow/Shepherd and you can certainly sit down with Fred and Fred doesn't care about what j... JEFF DANIELS
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All you can do is examine the trading patterns, which do not provide a real analysi... KURT EICHENWALD A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achiev... KURT LEWIN I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science f... KURT VONNEGUT I have no problem with responsible gun owners who own weapons for self-protection, hunting, or just ... KURT EICHENWALD Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It a... KURT COBAIN This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow? KURT VONNEGUT I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up f... KURT BROWNING Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded t... KURT VONNEGUT My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be... KURT COBAIN Bitcoins are not a real investment; they are bets inside a casino. If the price goes back up, don... KURT EICHENWALD All the great game show hosts have a signature 'look,' from Bob Barker's year-round Braz... KURT BRAUNOHLER The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Pra... KURT VONNEGUT I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important thin... KURT COBAIN I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro co... KURT BUSIEK In Canada, you can't even have a barbecue in your backyard without being attacked by a moose or ... KURT ANGLE I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge... KURT RUSSELL Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do n... KURT SUTTER My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosom... KURT COBAIN I remember seeing Tony Bennett on television. He was the only guy in the orchestra who was wearing a... KURT ELLING Too often, it seems, conservatives have scorned experts as incompetent, biased, or otherwise worth i... KURT EICHENWALD I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment ... KURT VONNEGUT I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best th... KURT VONNEGUT Basically, whenever someone says they're wrong, conservatives too often fall back on claims that... KURT EICHENWALD When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been... KURT VONNEGUT I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our da... KURT ELLING John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down. KURT COBAIN The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very muc... KURT VONNEGUT I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the America... KURT COBAIN If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying... KURT COBAIN Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut. KURT VONNEGUT You know what i hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts. KURT COBAIN