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Related It's so important to keep moving and don't buy into the myth. I say do anything you feel lik... FLORENCE HENDERSON I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure g... RAKUL PREET SINGH I don't really have any interest in allowing other people's kind of idiotic, unnecessary, ei... ANDY BIERSACK For me, I never wore my religion on my sleeve, you know what I'm saying? I never put myself out ... LUPE FIASCO I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, wh... JAMES CAAN In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I d... AXL ROSE You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try ... JOHNNY CASH A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have n... JR It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husb... DOROTHY STRATTEN People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, a... VICTORIA PENDLETON I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own ... DANE COOK I don't believe that directors need to essentially manipulate actors into doing things. You can ... RUTH NEGGA I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in... GARY COLEMAN I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. ... VIVIAN STANSHALL Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if y... NOAH HAWLEY I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectati... JULIANA HATFIELD The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone... SANDY KOUFAX If you aren't going to make your revenue plan, it's unlikely you'll make your EBITDA or ... BRAD FELD I don't care where you went to school. There - have I made your day? No? All right, I'll go ... ROBERT WEBB I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best. TOWNES VAN ZANDT Don't ever, ever devalue your product. Ever. It's the worst thing anyone can do to hurt your... KEVIN PLANK I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to f... CORAZON AQUINO I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don'... CHUCK NOLL My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't... SHIA LABEOUF Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something... BILLY JOEL I don't have the wherewithal to judge God's will. I don't have the wherewithal to determ... AMUL THAPAR Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet ... RALPH MARSTON You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue persona... CARL HONORE No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't s... MOSES No one cares what you ate for breakfast. Unless it's something really spectacular, don't twe... BUSY PHILIPPS I don't have any assistants, I do it all myself, I don't have any secretaries. BILLY SHERWOOD We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, a... BILL MURRAY Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your... WAYNE DYER I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would... EMINEM Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet ... RALPH MARSTON All this stuff doesn't happen to you for your own sake. It doesn't happen to you so you can ... DAVID ROBINSON I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees t... BRION JAMES The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't hav... CANDACE BUSHNELL When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, th... ABIGAIL WASHBURN I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your phy... TOM BERENGER To me, the scariest movie ever made to this day is 'The Exorcist.' It still scares the livin... CASSANDRA PETERSON Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that... JOSHUA FERRIS I don't have a nanny. I have a chef, and I have my assistant, and that's it. I do it myself.... MELANIA TRUMP It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit o... NICKI MINAJ I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't an... SOPHIA LOREN But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's... MEL GIBSON I don't want to prove to anyone or prove to myself. I'd rather just enjoy and show myself th... ELVIS STOJKO I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would... EMINEM I don't want fear or cancer to define me, but it's always in the back of your mind. ETHAN ZOHN I am my own cheerleader. I am the one who puts my goals, who pushes myself to get to the next goal. ... REEM ACRA I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading.... BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't... AASIF MANDVI For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name o... LIAM NEESON Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off... DAVID JOHANSEN What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it's your mindset. SIMON RATTLE People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I shou... RODNEY KING I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me. TAYLOR SCHILLING If I could give one tip for people - it's not an exercise or nutrition regimen. It's to walk... BRETT HOEBEL It doesn't do much good to have a quality image, whether it's with the facility or whether i... JAMES SINEGAL I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know. SUZAN-LORI PARKS Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's ... GRETCHEN RUBIN You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I ... KATE BOSWORTH It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to wha... ANTHONY EDWARDS I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others d... SONIA SOTOMAYOR Honestly, I don't buy papers or the weeklies. I think when something messy does happen, you just... ABBEY CLANCY There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for basebal... MICHAEL LEWIS For the mission's sake, for our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Divi... JAMES MATTIS I think I don't really have any expectations; I don't look at the season as a whole - I look... CASEY STONER There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose yo... RAKUL PREET SINGH I hate the treadmill. I hate it. You really don't have to be on it that long, something like 20 ... DEREK JETER I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't... ELIZABETH HURLEY The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. Th... MICHAEL MOORE Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the the... AL LOPEZ In Canada, you can't even have a barbecue in your backyard without being attacked by a moose or ... KURT ANGLE I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel... KAT GRAHAM I do come across people who don't like me, don't like my comedy, don't think it's fu... DEMETRI MARTIN I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your ... WALTER DEAN MYERS I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this worl... DAVID CASSIDY I've written songs before, and I don't want to share them with anybody. It's really pers... JEREMY JORDAN I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well! ELAINE STRITCH I don't read any reviews, so I'm oblivious to what they have to say. I'm completely unaw... KATE WINSLET I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It'... CHARLIE KAUFMAN You can binge a TV series or watch a reality show, and they're not innocent. They take a lot of ... RAOUL PECK Follow your heart. Do what you love. Because I was constantly struggling with that. If it's in y... MAZ JOBRANI I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel li... DANA DELANY It doesn't matter what your pedigree is, who your family is or what degrees you have. What reall... GRACIA MARTORE There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you&... CATE BLANCHETT If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then i... PAUL MOONEY So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about ... EMILY BLUNT I don't have any expectations. DELTA GOODREM Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about wha... BETH ORTON I don't have any health problems, but to keep your health improves your quality of life. MARY J. BLIGE I don't look at negative comments because my parents and family don't let me. My big sister ... MILLIE BOBBY BROWN I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, 'Yeah, we're the Kinks.' Cele... MICHAEL WEATHERLY When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don&... TA-NEHISI COATES I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don'... SHEL SILVERSTEIN I actually don't know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I r... MICHAEL IAN BLACK I don't really have any traits that I deplore. I get annoyed with myself sometimes, but that'... GEORGE MICHAEL I cannot learn creation from other people; I've got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not... PSY
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