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Related Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe. FIONA APPLE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I ... ODETTE ANNABLE 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 Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I'm a free-market economist from years and years back, and I've never veered from that. ALAN GREENSPAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense ... WILLEM DAFOE I'm not one who's big on accolades and all those things. I did my job and I'm proud of w... TROY BROWN My body back at the Playboy mansion was the most important thing in life back then because we were i... KENDRA WILKINSON I'm not good with catty girls. I'm too laid-back. VANESSA HUDGENS I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song,... DAVID NAIL I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't r... FKA TWIGS When I was fourteen years old, our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back.... AARON DOUGLAS When I hung up my toe shoes, I didn't look back. In all my years, I have never looked back. PATRICIA MCBRIDE I'm not one of those actors who gets so taken by a role that I can't live my life. I'm t... BILLY PORTER I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't ca... RIDLEY SCOTT For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and... DAVID CASSIDY The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parti... ALANIS MORISSETTE I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum. JILL SOBULE I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going o... NATE DIAZ I'm not going to be a guy that retires and keeps coming back. When I'm gone, I'm gone. S... KURT ANGLE My friends back from the East Coast jokingly call me 'Hollywood,' and they assume I'm ou... BILL LAWRENCE I'm not really a zombie genre guy; I'm not particularly versed in it. Doing 'The Walking... NOAH EMMERICH The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get ... JULIETTE LEWIS I'm not one of those girls who can think, 'Right, I'll put a scarf with that and a littl... SOPHIE WINKLEMAN I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get thi... ED SHEERAN I'd been auditioning for parts for years. I never got any better at it. I'm crap at audition... JAMIE DORNAN I'm not the sort to back away from a fight. I don't believe in shrinking from anything. It... JOHN WAYNE I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real ... RACHEL JOYCE I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw... BILL BRYSON Listen, I am such a nerd. I'm not one of those girls that goes, 'Ha, ha, hee, hee. I'm a... MILA KUNIS I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but ... OLGA KORBUT I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It's - but it all goes back to ... BETTY WHITE The only reason I look back is to check if I've been doing something wrong. I look at things fro... STEWART LEE I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die,... J. C. WATTS I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back. JASON STATHAM I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I... BRUCE BABBITT On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a fi... RACHEL ZOE I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have... SIMON TOYNE When I become prime minister, I'm going to buy one of those Margaret Thatcher handbags, and I... PIM FORTUYN I was the Playmate editor for 'Playboy' for two years. I produced two years' worth of ce... HOLLY MADISON 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 one of five sisters. I'm the younger of twins, and we're the youngest of five girls,... JERRY HALL Crazy people are my people? Really? I think that's silly. That's another one of those pigeon... HOLLY HUNTER I moved from Minnesota to Las Vegas when I was 13, so I spent my high school years there and did som... BETH RIESGRAF I know it's really square but I'm one of those people who piles on the factor 50 as soon as ... FREEMA AGYEMAN The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. An... ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent ch... SELMA BLAIR It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the b... DYLAN MCDERMOTT I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less governmen... CLINT EASTWOOD I'm just not somebody who can sit around doing nothing, and all of us in the Foo Fighters have o... TAYLOR HAWKINS Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usua... JACOB ARTIST I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all a... BRIGITTE BARDOT I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm look... TAYLOR LAUTNER I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to ... IRVIN MAYFIELD I'm one of those people who would be OK with fading back into the background a little bit. SHAWN MICHAELS As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thin... NATE RUESS In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,'... HOLLY HUNTER I'm not Charlie Chaplin and will never, ever claim to be. But when I become the 'Tramp,'... ROB MCCLURE I'm not so interested in perfect, plastic beauty, and I think it translates in the girls I'v... FRANCOIS NARS I think maybe ten years from now, I'm hopefully going to be, in like, Tahiti or something. Kicki... COREY HAIM A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling... JASON NEWSTED I can't believe that I was one of those people who said 'I'm not really a sci-fi fan.... MAGDA APANOWICZ I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achi... VICTORIA PENDLETON I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool -... SEBASTIAN VETTEL I see girls who haven't had a carbohydrate in three years. The second you go back to eating righ... GINNIFER GOODWIN They have increased readership, which is good, but I personally am not very turned on by e-books. Th... ROBERT LOOMIS When I'm a mum, I'm not going to be one of those mums who has nannies. Actually, I might hav... NICOLE SCHERZINGER Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a ... PAUL SORVINO I'm very picky when it comes to men. I come across a man who I'm really attracted to about o... EVANGELINE LILLY Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforwa... ZAYN MALIK What I really like about 'Grit' - especially being the guy who goes on TV every week and say... JOHN CENA Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I loo... CARA DELEVINGNE It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and ... GARRETT HEDLUND I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice.... FRANK MCCOURT I'm one that doesn't let the pressure or any of the outside kind of scrutiny, all those thin... CARSON WENTZ If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college wh... EMMY ROSSUM I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never d... FIONA APPLE I'm not one who goes to a lot of fashion shows or tries to infiltrate that world, really. DAVID HALLBERG It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go... LYNN COADY I have played some wonderful leading roles on stage and had the whole 'China Beach' years wh... ROBERT PICARDO A friend is someone who has your back. Those in the military refer to it as, 'I got your six.... KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Everyone's gone through a breakup, and I've dated girls in the past where... I've never ... CHARLIE PUTH I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not. RACHEL STEVENS I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I... DOUG AITKEN The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really tal... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three diffe... DAN CHAON I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting o... STEVE MARTIN The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a ro... BOB COLACELLO I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived i... DANICA PATRICK It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I ne... MARY MCDONNELL But I was always a bit of a gypsy, anyway. I spent five years at Oklahoma State, five years at Miami... JIMMY JOHNSON I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with ... STEVEN SPIELBERG I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and wher... EDDIE MURPHY
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JAMES MADISON Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of... JAMES MADISON I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater... JAMES MADISON In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the ... JAMES MADISON Indulging no passions which trespass on the rights or the repose of other nations, it has been the t... JAMES MADISON Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all oth... JAMES MADISON But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, wo... JAMES MADISON As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This g... TIFFANY MADISON And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that... JAMES MADISON A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves, lest while we are building ideal monuments of renown and b... JAMES MADISON I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Governm... JAMES MADISON In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance JAMES MADISON The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of... JAMES MADISON Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted th... JAMES MADISON The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the r... JAMES MADISON completely and utterly untrue. JAMES MADISON Keep within the requisite limits a standing military force, always remembering that an armed and tra... JAMES MADISON Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up... JAMES MADISON Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular cu... TIFFANY MADISON Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments,... JAMES MADISON No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. JAMES MADISON There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more ... JAMES MADISON Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... Dur... JAMES MADISON Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opin... JAMES MADISON Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquer... TIFFANY MADISON This is a scary game when a team comes in with nothing to lose and everything to gain. We've got the... TOBY MADISON