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Related You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don... MACY GRAY Before competition, I start to question things. I don't know why it happens, but you've got ... ADAM PEATY When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into th... GREG RUSEDSKI When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ... ATO ESSANDOH There is a moment when you get older when your metabolism slows down and you don't feel like wor... JANET JACKSON Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it... WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER HANDY But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I t... K. ERIC DREXLER I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. I... ZEDD If you're a musician, you're a musician; you don't ever get that out of your bones. ALEX CLARE If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do thing... LOU HOLTZ It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famo... AMANDA SEYFRIED All I know is don't ever get into a feud with Taylor Swift. She has, like, 50 million people tha... DIPLO Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious w... FANNY BRICE 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. I don't know if it is of any joy to humiliate people. No matter what, whether you're high in... KANGANA RANAUT Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids ... BILLY BOB THORNTON What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things thro... LEWIS BLACK I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with yo... GABRIEL IGLESIAS You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side pick... OSCAR ROBERTSON I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that. DAVID COVERDALE No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you're going to bump into somebody that make... KEVIN HART At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a moth... INDRA NOOYI If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting st... RICHARD C. ARMITAGE I think, whenever you're doing anything, you don't want anyone anywhere to watch it and thin... CLAIRE FOY People ask me about my limp. I say, 'You know, I don't know how bad it is, because I don'... TERI GARR When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, y... DAVID HASSELHOFF Sometimes there are paparazzi that take photos and you don't know they're there. So you'... DIANNA AGRON Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't... RUSSELL BAKER If you think people are against you and that you're a target, things will start appearing that w... HALIMA ADEN You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one. ERIC BROWN I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for ... ABEL FERRARA Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don... CATHY MORIARTY I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. I... WALE Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that ... STEVE WOZNIAK I don't look at negative comments because my parents and family don't let me. My big sister ... MILLIE BOBBY BROWN You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take lif... TOM PETTY Most people don't know what's happening around them because they're just speeding throug... TRACY MORGAN I don't work out or watch what I eat - but I need to start so it doesn't catch up to me. CAMERON DALLAS I don't like technology and all that. I'm a farm boy. I would rather live in that time when ... TRAVIS FIMMEL I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of t... ESTER DEAN When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works ... CANDICE ACCOLA I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where... ARTHUR ASHE I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don... JOYCE DIDONATO Men don't know enough about being courteous toward women. You should get into a cab before a wom... THOM BROWNE Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying t... JOEL COEN I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences ... LEWIS THOMAS You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons fro... ALAN ALDA Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something. ASHTON KUTCHER You get those hunger pains. 'I am so hungry. We don't have any food. What are we going to ea... BEN MCLEMORE Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be... JAMES MIRRLEES Don't get old, if you can avoid it. BILLY GRAHAM I don't think you're human if you don't get nervous. SIDNEY CROSBY Nutrition doesn't have to be complicated. It goes back to the lessons you learned as a kid. Star... SUMMER SANDERS Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don'... CHRIS CARTER I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They&... LIAM GALLAGHER You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I d... CAITLYN JENNER Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to t... GARY OLDMAN I told the truth about the Miami life. It's a nice place to visit, but you don't want to liv... TRICK DADDY Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don&... JOHN IRVING Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people'... BRYAN FULLER We're open people. I don't understand these Hollywood people who don't want to put their... GIULIANA RANCIC Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and... JACK HUSTON No one's banging down my door. People see the way I look, and they don't feel threatened, bu... TIM DALY It's so important to keep moving and don't buy into the myth. I say do anything you feel lik... FLORENCE HENDERSON I think people should have fun. And don't get so down on yourself. Enjoy life and be the best pe... KEKE PALMER I won't play past 30. Why? I want to - I don't know - start a family, live life. EUGENIE BOUCHARD Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you'... BARTON GELLMAN I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events... NOAH BAUMBACH I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you'... LADY GAGA It's important to raise your voice in things you feel passionate about and things that you know ... ZENDAYA We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don... DONALD TRUMP I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the ti... ELLE FANNING When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But w... FEFE DOBSON I don't know if it's responsible for kids of my age to be so aggressively pursuing monogamou... EZRA MILLER You know, I don't watch television! Sorry! I actually don't even have a television. I don... BROOKE SMITH I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don'... SHEL SILVERSTEIN Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police sho... ROONE ARLEDGE You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'... IAN MCKELLEN Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out ove... EARTHA KITT People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folk... GARY LARSON Getting older is baggage for so many people but I don't spend time on things I can't control... CHRISTY TURLINGTON Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly en... HUGH JACKMAN If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. The... MAISIE WILLIAMS Stardom should be a discovery. You don't hammer it onto people's heads. You don't demand... PRIYANKA CHOPRA If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the ... NATE DIAZ Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It does... VERA WANG If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplishe... CARLI LLOYD I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that. LACEY CHABERT Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically... MADISON SMARTT BELL I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it'... NATE LOWMAN As you know, I'm androgynous. I can wear a jacket that most guys wouldn't put on. But you ma... STEVEN TYLER Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into pract... DAVID HOROWITZ I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in... R. KELLY I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and th... MAIARA WALSH You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, th... VANESSA WILLIAMS Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to l... RICHARD BACH If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don'... MARK ZUPAN I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters o... GARETH BALE When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in y... SCOTT IAN
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TAYLOR NEGRON Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad. TAYLOR NEGRON We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about o... TAYLOR NEGRON I personally won't have anything live in my house that can't move the car on street-sweeping... TAYLOR NEGRON When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the peopl... TAYLOR NEGRON I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives ... TAYLOR NEGRON I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting. TAYLOR NEGRON I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act. TAYLOR NEGRON Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed und... TAYLOR NEGRON Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5'... TAYLOR NEGRON In Beverly Hills, around 3 P.M. on Bedford Drive, a strange rite occurs. All the men and women who h... TAYLOR NEGRON As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereot... TAYLOR NEGRON I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living he... TAYLOR NEGRON I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called ... TAYLOR NEGRON I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of sa... TAYLOR NEGRON My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat. TAYLOR NEGRON My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles wh... TAYLOR NEGRON These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cut... TAYLOR NEGRON For a long time, I lived in West Hollywood and watched young gay men strolling through life having n... TAYLOR NEGRON Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How mu... TAYLOR NEGRON To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a ... TAYLOR NEGRON I've always loved silent movies. I recently saw 'Tilly's Punctured Romance' at the A... TAYLOR NEGRON I think people are obsessed with their pets because pets don't speak. It's that simple. Afte... TAYLOR NEGRON I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern. TAYLOR NEGRON I do think Jesus would skip church on Sunday morning and instead visit the nursing homes and retirem... TAYLOR NEGRON The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and... TAYLOR MALI I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters... TAYLOR MALI One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are m... TAYLOR MALI The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint. TAYLOR MALI When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was ac... TAYLOR MALI Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving ... TAYLOR MALI If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteou... TAYLOR MALI I guess winning an Oscar is the ultimate dream. A lot of amazing actors go their whole career withou... TAYLOR LAUTNER I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. Sh... TAYLOR LAUTNER 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 got the famous Oprah hug! TAYLOR LAUTNER If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm ... TAYLOR LAUTNER