Extroverts want us to have fun, because they assume we want what they want. And sometimes we do. But “fun” itself is a “bright” word, the kind of word that comes with flashing lights and an exclamation point! One of Merriam-Webster’s definitions of “fun” is “violent or excited activity or argument.” The very word makes me want to sit in a dimly lit room with lots of pillows—by myself.
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Related It's a family event. We want kids to come out and get excited and see there are lots of fun outdoor ... KATIE WALSH People speculate or think what they want to think, but it's been really fun for me to kind of ex... SELENA GOMEZ You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because... ALAIN PROST The original root of the word information is the Latin word informare, which means to fashion, shape... THEORDORE ROSZAK Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Do they want to keep it simple and fun or complicated and not so much fun. The lodging business is a... DENNIS JONES That water makes their hair grow. They say the magic word and they want the boy's hair or man's hair... HOWARD WILLIA The operative word is coalition. We want to work with all agencies that are local and help them do w... DON BAKER Never make fun of someone is they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading. ANONYMOUS My kids thought they were on Mars. We couldn't get a word in edgewise, but it was fun to just sit an... ANDRE AGASSI The fact is that very few of us know what words mean; fewer still take the trouble to enquire. We ca... ALEISTER CROWLEY Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to ext... WENDELL WILLKIE You really want to make sure that you have fun, at the end of the day. If it's not fun, what'... AYELET ZURER We want our guests to have a fun-filled vacation with everything they need right here. TIM ROBERTS Its a lot of fun. Cakes makes the day more enjoyable for the customers and that is what we want the ... BRUCE MCKINNEY What does it mean to care? Let me start by saying that the word care has become a very ambivalent wo... HENRI J.M. NOUWEN The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL We want everyone to go with just the intention of having fun. We want all of the teams laughing afte... CHRISTOPHER CORBIN Take care of your words and the words will take care of you. AMIT RAY Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL In any kind of relationship we can make the assumption that others know what we think, and we don’... MIGUEL RUIZ He said a bad word. Do you want to know what it was? It started with F. It's not the one you're thin... DEREK LANDY Human tool-makers always make tools that will help us get what we want, and what we want hasn't chan... MARGARET ATWOOD A person's word and a man's handshake ought to mean something. Maybe you're better for not having th... JOE GLENN We want to help them get the word out that they converted from the Otter to the Beechcraft, ... We w... DANNY ROBERTS The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to... DANIEL HANNAN 'I Got a Feeling' by the Black Eyed Peas - Reminds me of happy, fun times with my friends an... SUMMER SANDERS It's a varsity program, so the emphasis is on winning. Winning is more fun. No one likes to lose, bu... FRIEND WEILER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We have a lot of our returning favorites that always participate with us, and we have a lot of new g... NADIA SKERTICH The biggest thing we want to do is have fun and hopefully give some of the younger kids some experie... RYAN CARLSON We just want everyone to come out and have fun. This is a fun event for the entire family. DON OSTROWSKY One of the most troublesome things in life is that what you do or do not want has very little to do ... LEMONY SNICKET We want them to have fun. We have our section leaders hold at least five sectional rehearsals during... PAUL CLARK I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG You see, what I want is life. A real life, full of moments of joy, of anguish, of irritation, of fun... GEMMA MALLEY As an actor you want people to know you and there are times you want your pictures taken, but it'... ASHLEY GREENE If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all ... JOAN COLLINS It was cheaper this way than flying all six of us. And we didn't want to drive, because we wanted to... DEBBIE WILLIAMS We still want to keep our casual look, but now people want something extra and interesting. Not just... CONSTANCE WHITE I'm excited for another opportunity. I want to have fun, but at this point everyone wants a national... APRIL BURKHOLDER The primary word is ?fun'; it's about fun. DAVID GERKE Ava, People are the impossible, but most of us don’t see it, and that’s what limits us: the freq... J.A. GEORGE It's the best kind of sexuality, the humorous kind. To me, humor is sexy. I never want to take mysel... CHANTAL CLARET In spite of great coverage from the press, media and by word of mouth, there are still lots of peopl... AMY BRANSON We just want to go out there and have fun, put some effort into it and have some fun with the guys a... GUY DUPUIS We all sometimes take ourselves too seriously. I want them to think that I'm one of them, that this ... GENE DEFILIPPO Tsze-Kung asked, “Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?” The ... CONFUCIUS 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON It's going to be a fun contrast of two very different styles. They want to push everything up and do... JAY OSBORNE Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, theres l... TOM HANKS This is not meant to make fun of ourselves or the people who want to come here. But people do need t... MAUD BREDERO We want 200,000 of our friends and neighbors in Maine to have an exciting and fun weekend. We're hap... JOHN JAMES We want to have some fun, too, because it's Spike and the nature of the genres we're honoring. CASEY PATTERSON You have to be able to audible depending on what kind of defense they are showing. You don't want to... CHRIS SVARCZKOPF [With] traditional toolbars, there's no more room to go as apps get more sophisticated. The traditio... CHRIS CAPOSSELA [With] traditional toolbars, there's no more room to go as apps get more sophisticated, ... The trad... CHRIS CAPOSSELA And what do they want!? DEYTH BANGER It just all depends on what people are pursuing, if they want to pursue a career right away, or if t... CHRIS SUTTON The law was a fascist law. They don't want us to have any fun, they being the government. GIAN PIEROTTI I think there is always room for improvement from game to game, but we just have to stay focused. An... BRIAN SHIPLEY It will be fun to see Auburn again. We knocked them out of the tournament last season so we are goin... BRYAN HENRY We're going to be married and hardly touch each other and have to work and work and never have any f... CASSIE MAE As a company, we're neutral in terms of affiliation. We're just having lots of fun with the mask pre... DANIEL HAIGHT Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions... DAVE BARRY Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I wa... PAT BURNS We invite crew members and everybody to come out and hear God's word with us. But other than that, w... CHRIS HUFFMAN What we want to avoid are gigantic trailer parks, for lack of a better word, HALEY BARBOUR We have a really young team with plenty of freshmen and sophomores. This team has been really fun be... LOUISE JOHNSON Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl. BILL PETERSON We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I wa... MARINA KEEGAN I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain... BERNIE MAC Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People wa... DAN STEVENS Grinding, touching -- they think it's going to be like stripping. Kids don't want to do that. They j... EMILY BROWN We want to make sure this is a fun, positive celebration of springtime and a venue for children. BILL ENRIGHT We just want to play great basketball. We still have work to do, but this is a fun team to coach. COLEMAN SMITH Athletics were an every day part of me and they were fun. It was natural for me to want to play in c... DAVID SCHROEDER We want a sea of red from Friday to Sunday. We just want to have a whole lot of fun, a big celebrati... FRANCOIS FOURNIER There are some purists out there, who really go to sporting events for the love of the sport. Most p... JOE WEISS With 'Transformers,' I'm going to get to drive fast cars and have a lot of fun. That'... JACK REYNOR This is what I call power joking, ... We've gotten very politically correct at corporations and we d... JUDY CARTER My parents have sailed around the world; they know what can happen and that it's not always fun,... LAURA DEKKER We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and t... SUZY KASSEM She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I like to think it's because I'm a cool guy, but maybe they just don't want to be made fun of. DAVID SPADE One of the aspects of White Castle that makes us unique is we like to have fun with our menu and our... JAMIE RICHARDSON That's what we want to be, we want to be ... different. I don't know if better is the right word ...... DAN BRENNAN We just talked in the locker room that this is great. I congratulated them and asked if this is good... SYLVIA HATCHELL They are increasing among teenagers everywhere and we want to get the word out. FRANK BERDAR It may be that by watching everywhere we go, by watching everything we do, by analyzing every word w... EDWARD SNOWDEN It is important that Lieberman be in the cabinet because we don't want the government to be too left... DALIA ITZIK In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie ab... IYANLA VANZANT We have to have fun in everything we do or they're not going to come in the door. With the sex educa... JAY FARON The guys had so much fun that they thought maybe there's something else we want to do. We'd love to ... BILL SIDDONS The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo... KATHERINE VUCICEVIC We're promoting responsible dog ownership. But we also want to have some fun with it. GEORGENE STEWART Sometimes as a coach, you think it's better to lose a game and get bumped down a few pegs, but they ... CHRIS RASO We all do, kid. People have destructive impulses. Some of us want to see the world in ruins just for... RICK RIORDAN At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but m... MILLA JOVOVICH Maitri can be translated as "love" or "loving kindness". Some Buddhist teachers prefer "loving kindn... THICH NHAT HANH
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LAURIE GRAHAM My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get. LAURIE METCALF Yoga increases body awareness, the body/mind connection. We live in such a cerebral world, yoga can ... LAURIE SABOURIN This may be my deficiency, but I don't think of him as great bastard at all. HUGH LAURIE He's a curmudgeon - even at his own premiere. LAURIE DAVID Courts don't want to invade the deliberative process. We favor finality, and we don't want to send a... LAURIE LEVENSON We've sweetened them up considerably. They have a lot more sugar and flavor in them than the traditi... LAURIE STEED When you serve well, everything else follows. Good serving sets the stage and everybody starts servi... LAURIE NELSON He's our first small dog. He's broadened my horizons, and I just want to broaden his. It's been an a... LAURIE ALDRICH Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them. HUGH LAURIE The first big stars, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, you know, these were gigantic stars. I even wonder som... HUGH LAURIE Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so hug... LAURIE ANDERSON If your life, or the life of someone you love, is hanging in the balance, of course you would withst... HUGH LAURIE I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot. HUGH LAURIE To drink a cup of tea and put two sugars in and open a door and answer a telephone becomes incredibl... HUGH LAURIE There's just sort of this assumption that whatever . . .the writers come up with, HUGH LAURIE The human psyche is a self-correcting mechanism. LAURIE NADEL The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famill... LAURIE COLWIN No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by gen... LAURIE COLWIN You score three times inside the first 30 (minutes) and the bonus point is there for the grab. We ju... LAURIE FISHER Maine has the highest rate of childhood asthma in the country. The good news is that Maine is ahead ... LAURIE STILLMAN I'm not a bigot. I'm not a homophobe. I'm a conscientious parent. LAURIE TAYLOR I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm n... PIPER LAURIE All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a ki... LAURIE LEE When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. A... LAURIE ANDERSON I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff. PIPER LAURIE Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help. HUGH LAURIE I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sit... HUGH LAURIE Ideas are 10 a penny. It's the execution that's the hard thing to do. House is standing up a... HUGH LAURIE The system broke down. We have to ask hard questions. LAURIE ZOLOTH They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am. HUGH LAURIE People assume that I'm very highly trained, that I studied and did years and years of Shakespeare. I... HUGH LAURIE He was a very gentle soul and, I think, a very good doctor. And I'm probably being paid more to beco... HUGH LAURIE I am terribly conscious of the fact that the world doesn't need any more actors. There are so many b... HUGH LAURIE Plainly, if your life is hanging in the balance, the most important thing to you at that moment is g... HUGH LAURIE I have no problem with Matthew taking that deal, from the figures that I understand the ballpark to ... LAURIE FISHER If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance! LAURIE STRONGIN The constitutional presumption is for openness in the courts, but we have to ask whether we are real... LAURIE LEVENSON He draws defenders. He's got to learn to dish it off more, but with that pace he's a bit of firepowe... LAURIE CALLOWAY It's more than a slap in the face. It's shoving you in the mud and spitting on you. It's not just a ... BILL LAURIE I'm rather enjoying the whole process of reinvention, ... To be able to pretend to be something that... HUGH LAURIE "Cutting bangs are like thong underwear....an "adjustment" period of about two weeks is required bef... LAURIE OSBURN I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fe... HUGH LAURIE We don't want this issue hanging over our heads. LAURIE ARRON