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N.B. This quotation... SHAQUILLE ONEAL Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH 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 About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. SHAQUILLE ONEAL I would like to be refered to as 'The Big Aristotle'. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA After I quote unquote came out as a Republican, one of my dearest gay friends said to me, 'You... ANGIE HARMON The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was writte... AARON SORKIN I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON Like, you can't tell a certain race, like, 'You're supposed to act this way, and you'... KREAYSHAWN All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like,... TAISSA FARMIGA Because I'm seen on 'Oz', a lot of the urban cats in the city are like, 'Yo, I thoug... KIRK ACEVEDO That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could... JIM CARREY I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appea... DEMETRI MARTIN I came home from school one day, and there was a phone call for me. And I picked up the phone. They ... BEN BERNANKE I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, ... ROBERT MCKEE I don't like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four y... CLINT EASTWOOD If you're doing this because you feel like you have a burning desire to do it, then you'll f... TRISHA YEARWOOD I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the... BRIAN HUSKEY On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, 'RT, re-tweet, that person's name, a... ETHAN ZUCKERMAN I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd sen... ZOSIA MAMET Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to... MARY ROACH I wash my hair once a week. You can do that. I swear. My sister-in-law and all of my friends were li... JOYCE GIRAUD I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the ... ZACH BRAFF What I don't like so much is people who - how do you say this? - who make judgments over the gen... JOHN DE MOL, JR. From Italy, I'd get calls from cousins and aunts saying, 'I don't think you should act. ... ENRICO COLANTONI We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy,... LOU HOLTZ You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap sta... BRANDON FLOWERS There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a t... LOUIS C. K. My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what... EMILIA CLARKE I want a guy who's going to be accepting of - one, my big 'ol, loud Mexican family - and als... BECKY G I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. 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You perform it. ... TIMOTHY LEARY I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until y... NATASHA LEGGERO Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidat... BETTY WHITE I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this busi... MEGAN FOX I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and p... KID ROCK I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing t... JONAH HILL I really like playing other people. There is no other feeling like it, to have a different voice com... CRISTIN MILIOTI A famous actor told me once - I don't want to name names, I hate that sort of thing - but I was ... SAM CLAFLIN It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, bu... JESSICA BIEL I've never been good at getting on people's nerves, and from the little quotes I read, it... ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practi... TIM O'REILLY Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what y... BARBARA BILLINGSLEY I love to cook. I'd hoped by now I'd have a big loft. I have this fantasy that between 12 an... CARA BUONO I haven't gotten a lot of feedback about, 'Oh, you helped me in this way.' But on social... TAYLOUR PAIGE We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit’.You ANITA BHOGLE People hate me for whatever reasons they come up with, or they hate me because their friends said th... RYAN SHECKLER I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like. BRITTANY MURPHY I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have ... TRACY MORGAN My brothers used to call me Bob. They'd laugh at me, and I didn't get it. I'm 13 years o... MICHAEL STRAHAN Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your frie... EDGAR RAMIREZ I tend to be that swimmer that doesn't look like she is trying, but is actually dying on the ins... CATE CAMPBELL What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, ... CARA DELEVINGNE I'd much rather be in the expanse of the wilderness because it feels like part of my world. It... SARAH MCLACHLAN That's what happens in Hollywood. People are like, 'I want to hate you, because everyone els... EVANGELINE LILLY I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. I... BARBARA FELDON I am fortunate in having this bone structure because I have a tremendously prominent temple. I like ... KATE O'MARA Mark Wahlberg, when I was in high school, people were like, 'You look like Marky Mark!' Then... 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ELIZABETH MERIWETHER When I was about 19, my stepmother said - because this was back in the '80s - that I had Robert ... MICHAEL WEATHERLY Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while..... VINCE LOMBARDI
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SHAQUILLE O'NEAL I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the thin... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and ... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL We hung in there and were able to squeak out a win. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL We live in an impatient world. Everybody is always looking for the next big Kobe, the next big LeBro... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL I nicknamed him 'Flash,' because he is so fast out there on the floor and he does it with ease. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL I commend everybody who's helping out in some way, SHAQUILLE O'NEAL I'm a mama's boy above all. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL Like Pat Riley said, it's the best Miami Heat team he's ever put together and I agree with him. I al... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL We just had to suck it up. We came out with a fast start and they came and played a little harder. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL He was just out flopping and the refs fell for it. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL (I still have) a little fluid in there, as you can see. So as long as the fluid goes down and it get... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL If Antoine and Jason and Posey are going to keep shooting like that, I'm going to keep looking for t... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger). SHAQUILLE O'NEAL One lucky shot deserves another. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL It's a little bit discouraging, but it's something we can't dwell on. We have to realize guys are go... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playin... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL We're going to miss Damon. He was a great shooter. . . . He got what he wanted, but he gave up a lot... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take you... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-qual... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL We had to pick up our intensity in the last 10 minutes of the fourth quarter, and we did. We needed ... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg No... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL It's just frustrating, ... All you're trying to do is help and get help to people in need and you se... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL A lot of people are probably worried that we're starting over. ... It won't be a problem at all, ...... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL I guess this was his first shot at getting something big, SHAQUILLE O'NEAL The response has been overwhelming, SHAQUILLE O'NEAL very doubtful, for the game. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL We would love to have Gary down here, ... Gary is [37] years old, but he is still tenacious on defen... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my ... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL We still could have got it done, ... It just wasn't our turn. It just wasn't meant to be. Now you ju... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL Get away from my house. What do you want? SHAQUILLE O'NEAL It was a shock to me. I found out when (the media) found out. I didn't know what was going on. Stan ... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL I don't know why we play so badly one night and so well the next. I don't know. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL I love the Miami atmosphere, SHAQUILLE O'NEAL He's going to be real big, ... I tried to show him the way, how to get it done, what to do. And he's... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL There was a kid that had five brothers and sisters, and the family was missing for like five days. I... 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