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KELLY JONES He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
PIERRE CORNEILLE If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.
ANNE SEWARD I cover hunting, fishing and trapping, as they pertain to the outdoors. It's not about going out and...
ALAN PROBST My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting s...
STEVE ALBINI When you keep a child hunting and fishing, you keep them out of the courts. You keep them out of tro...
BOBBY HARPER People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me beca...
EVEL KNIEVEL Certainly hunting and fishing are a big part of outdoor recreation but of our nine interactive villa...
JACK NUGENT I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.
DEFOREST KELLEY I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF We don't see that there is an imminent threat to hunting and fishing in this state.
BILL SEDIVY It started off as a hobby. I was never one to do much fishing and hunting. On occasion I did. I was ...
GERALD PRUITT That keeps them occupied and not thinking about what is going on.
MEGAN STEWART I remember how important and loved it made me feel when I was a youth to be taken fishing and huntin...
BRUCE COMPTON The lake already has been viewed as very good, if not outstanding, for boating, fishing, camping, an...
BILL DUEY My absolute top priority is to make sure that everybody has the ability and the right to go fishing ...
DALE HALL The only reason I played golf was so that I could afford to go hunting and fishing.
SAM SNEAD My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothe...
LOUIS BACON Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I care...
JACKIE ROBINSON The birding community is generally supportive of this sort of thing, and there's been a lot of discu...
JOEL GEIR What does John Kerry think about Iraq? Who knows. Who cares.
TUCKER CARLSON I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.
MIRANDA LAMBERT He is a typical guy, liked hunting, fishing, sports, fast cars.
RICK MCGEE I will that every man be entitled to his hunting in wood and in field of his possession, and let eve...
CANUTE Just about every weekend when I was growing up, we would throw rods and rifles and tents and shovels...
BENJAMIN PERCY The question wasn't whether or not I cared about him; the question was, how much? I'm glad Tennyson ...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN There's no better way to honor Alex than to have somebody like John wear it, in my opinion. The kid'...
JOE MCCARTHY I'm not complaining about my life; every moment of it has been fantastic, and I'm so lucky.
ZOE CASSAVETES It's just a silly allegation that Bangladesh has been denying the existence of extremists. We have b...
MOUDUD AHMED It's just a silly allegation that Bangladesh has been denying the existence of extremists. We have b...
SAMINA AHMED It's been going on for so long that nobody cares. If they cared about that, Traip would no longer ha...
RON ROSS I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I...
LOIS LOWRY I grew up on Bay Lake. We had a big family and all of us kids were into the outdoors. My older broth...
JANE MORAN I cared about them. I wanted them to feel better, to live better lives. And then it occurred to me -...
CATE TIERNAN This article will tell you exactly where to go to catch halibut and what to use. Fishing & Hunting N...
ANDY MARTIN I think hunting is a harder sport to get into than fishing. Usually it requires role models.
BOB STATON Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and r...
JOHN PAUL STEVENS It's easy to be famous today. People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares ab...
EVEL KNIEVEL I can buy my hunting and fishing license online without an extra charge. I can renew my registration...
BRENT EDISON I'm not perfect and I know it. I've done all sorts of things that are frowned upon these day...
WILBUR SMITH I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.
WILLIAM WELLS BROWN The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is som...
TOM BROKAW He not only cares about how things are made and if they are recycled and making sure they are non-to...
ALISA GRAVITZ Also, I think more and more people are yearning to get out of the big cities, have a garden, and may...
CLINT WALKER It caught me a little bit off guard, ... At first, I lost my memory for a moment, that music had a m...
BRADLEY FREEMAN I showed the grown ups my masterpiece, and I asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered:"wh...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have ...
G-EAZY I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father's clear val...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album ref...
EMINEM I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I I grew up hunting and fishing. I've always been into archery. I've always been into cars... ...
PAUL WALKER The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer c...
STEVE GARVEY Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al ...
DARYL HALL I felt like they only cared about what I could do for them, not what they could do for me.
NORMA MCCORVEY He is expert in classical music. He knew the composers and knew their lives. He read their biographi...
DIANE JACOBOWITZ She plays every minute of every game and genuinely cares about the outcome. She deserves the recogni...
DENNIS REDICAN It's humbling. We never knew we had that many friends that cared about this.
AUGIE GONZALEZ I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have ow...
DOUGLASS NORTH I didn't fall off my chair. I knew John was very politically active.
DAVID MCGREW All the characters in my book are fictional, but every single one of them was inspired by someone I ...
SANELA RAMIC JURICH None of them knew a thing about what they were talking about, but every one of them acted like they ...
BRUCE HAGERMAN I have a fairly limited drawing style. I'm not like my friend Derek Kirk Kim, who can pretty muc...
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ANNIE HOWLEY I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hu...
LOU HENRY HOOVER It showed Marvin cared about the fans. For years, the fans had wondered if anyone in the organizatio...
LANCE MCALISTER My job, in the end, was to serve and protect, to assure that John's music was not being frivolously ...
MATTHIAS GOHL My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the mos...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I care about writing music and playing my music.
CARLA BRUNI A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and u...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac (and nobody cares about it).
BILL JOY I don't want to bore myself, so I'm always writing new music. My orchestra rehearses every Wednesday...
SAM RIVERS I swallowed the pills and I thought about my brother John and his family.
MICHAEL DILEONARDO I had a dream about you. We were ice fishing in my freezer. I caught a few cold beers, and you wonde...
DORA J. AROD And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I wanted to be very serious about being a musician - a guy who cares a lot about the music and the b...
JASON LEE The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to wri...
ERIC LIU I made my first trip in 1959 with my dad and I kinda liked it. I'm not putting down area fishing ? I...
CONNIE INMAN People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and...
MICHAEL JACKSON It was then I realized that no one can escape his age, and that my dangerous contempt had melted lik...
RAYMOND RADIGUET Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I...
MAX CLELAND Kyle was apologetic, and that's all I cared about,
RON GARDENHIRE Kyle was apologetic and that's all I cared about,
RON GARDENHIRE What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
CHAZ BONO When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainst...
LAUREN DAIGLE June was best friends with Robert Duvall, and I was directing a movie with Duvall and they were cons...
JAMES KEACH Poor in my youth, and in life's later scenes - Rich to no end, I curse my natal hour, Who naught enj...
GREEK PROVERB Even if nobody cared, I'm still gonna make music.
BRITTANY HOWARD For me, writing, drawing, and political activism are three separate pursuits; each has its own inten...
GUNTER GRASS Every day there was tension. I worked under terrible pressure. I was afraid that at any moment, I mi...
MOHAMED SIFAOUI Just from him doing the things that he knew how to do, moment to moment -- it's not some mythic figu...
DON CHEADLE I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying...
GABRIELLE APLIN My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kind...
CLINT EASTWOOD Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. ...
JOSS WHEDON Each resident will know that they are part of a community that cares about them and supports them.
GORDON DAVIES Glen cared very much about his grandkids. He cared about his family, and he was a hard worker.
JANET JONES This is not hunting. This is illegal in every respect.
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JOHN LENNON When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community...
JOHN THORN I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ...
JOHN BARROWMAN You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
JOHN LUBBOCK So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
JOHN LYDON There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS Get off your horse and drink your milk.
JOHN WAYNE The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
JOHN MCAFEE I can never consent to being dictated to.
JOHN TYLER There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!
JOHN HANCOCK When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim...
JOHN BOLTON Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd...
JOHN BOLTON