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Related I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, no... PHILIP K. DICK I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, no... PHILIP K. DICK I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves... NATE BERKUS Some people have morals, standards and ideals about quality, but I'm an American: I couldn't care le... TONY PIERCE Blair not only disregards the millions of people in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he does not care about... AYMAN AL-ZAWAHRI not only disregards the millions of people in Iraq and Afghanistan , but he does not care about you ... TONY BLAIR I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously,... TWYLA THARP I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, no... PHILIP K. DICK He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on you... LIBBA BRAY Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amou... NOAM CHOMSKY I don't believe taking your own life is wrong nor it's a lowest thing you can do for your own gain. ... J C A ROWE I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're... ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart,- ye... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL If you now go off and develop new standards, and standardize certain processes, you don't have to wo... BOB SUTOR I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well... PATRICK CHAN Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his o... AMBROSE BIERCE In a three-man booth -- and it's not just our three-man booth, it's any three-man booth -- the game ... TROY AIKMAN Witchcraft isn't about picking up a book, and asking forgiveness.. or learning about spirituality th... CARLA VANKOUGHNETT For the Jesus Revolutionaries, the answer was clear: Jesus would not be out waging "preventative" wa... DAVID LEVITHAN A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for ... SAMUEL JOHNSON Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated. OFRA STRAUSS I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to... FAY WRAY Travis is not overpowering, but he does not walk people. We talk about hitting your spots -- and he ... BRIAN CHENGER Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others ... ALBERT EINSTEIN A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford... C. S. FORESTER I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don'... ASHTON KUTCHER GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace hi... AMBROSE BIERCE You have to care about your work but not about the result. You have to care about how good you are a... AMY POEHLER The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and ab... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of d... PHARRELL WILLIAMS One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You... TIGER WOODS Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his ... AMBROSE BIERCE The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and al... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Let me say again that I have not read your book. And one of the reasons I didn't was because I wante... KEITH BEAUCHAMP Don’t ever feel bad for making a decision about your own life that upsets other people. You are no... ISAIAH HANKEL The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about l... ALAN BENNETT To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinn... BRENE BROWN These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any rol... BERNIE SANDERS Don’t care what people think about you. They don’t put food on your table or pay your bills. 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Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I... KURT VONNEGUT Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your r... SAUL ALINSKY Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about m... KURT VONNEGUT Our biggest thing is, as a team, we have to regroup in regards to our attitude and how we're going t... DON MCKEE If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ... ORLANDO BLOOM I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countl... IAN FLEMING I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of the... HILLARY CLINTON The mistake would be to think that Bush is a stupid man or somehow not responsible for his own actio... DANIEL SULLIVAN I don't need a man to take care of me. I want a man who wants to take care me. 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VIRONIKA TUGALEVA Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about yo... SAUL ALINSKY In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will... S. I. HAYAKAWA Lovely was my compliment. Could you not come up with your own?" "Lord Paen said compliment her,... LYNSAY SANDS I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humble... HEIDI BAKER People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the ex... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself,he is very careful about how much he sp... MILTON FRIEDMAN At what age did Warren Buffett come into philanthropy? At 76. He gave a very good reason. He said hi... SHIV NADAR Hosting is work. It means you don't get to go up to your room and disappear and take a nap. Like... GEORGE CLOONEY When people walk out of here, you think about your own personal life. I'm not going to complain ? it... DAN BARRETT Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and fin... ANNETTE BENING To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD I can't believe it's him. If he does for this what he did for I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. & Ins... DAVID RILEY A small publishing house is sometimes the way to go. I wanted somebody who would publish my book and... REGINA LEWIS We don't want anyone to feel intimidated. It's not about church or religion - it's about pouring com... GWEN STOWERS He is my son. But if a son does not care about the dignity of his family, God can take him. You cann... ABDUL MANAN He has an absolute right to his own copy of that report. That is not a qualified right with going in... JOE LARSEN I believe a nation does not maximize its health care until it starts to ask the hard question: How c... RICHARD LAMM He had wanted to go to the Academy and become a Shadowhunter, to learn more about his own life and r... CASSANDRA CLARE In the world of book writing, an author really gets to have control over what he or she writes, whic... LIZ TUCCILLO He who becomes the slave of habit, who follows the same routes every day, who never change... MARTHA MEDEIROS This is a revolutionary way to learn because you're not just reading, you're hearing people talk to ... DAVID POWER God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has t... FRANCIS CHAN Everything in this store benefits my kids. Those books go into the classroom. I had a little boy who... BARBARA BOSSER An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own childr... BENJAMIN DISRAELI I could care less if people talk about us or not. We know what we can do here. It's an exciting time... CHASE UTLEY He would be sitting up at his dinner table, and we had a wonderful time doing constructive geology a... CARL WENTWORTH He does not believe that does not live according to his belief . THOMAS FULLER He does not believe that does not live according to his belief. SIGMUND FREUD Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care th... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews boo... GEORGE W. S. TROW Radio provides a place for me to not be alone. I still subscribe to the idea that I listen to a DJ b... CELIA HIRSCHMAN The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to ca... JIMMY JOHNSON But pecuniary interest is clearly not in your nature. How quaint. I have written about people who do... DIANE SETTERFIELD The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a r... 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