That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.
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PATRICK KANE I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I... JACKI WEAVER I've never been good at getting on people's nerves, and from the little quotes I read, it... ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me ... DIANA KRALL I found out in pro wrestling that it works better if you just try and be yourself versus working on ... STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you... DARIN STRAUSS I'm the kind of guy who, if I look inside and they throw me a fastball outside, and it's a s... MIGUEL CABRERA I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to w... FERGUS HENDERSON If you're not mindful about sugar, high sugar intake is just the worst thing for you, but I'... KATE HUDSON If there's anything I think that you've seen about me, it's that I'm the rebellious ... 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AERIN LAUDER The problem is, I don't think I've got too much to offer at the minute. I'm busy working... ROBBIE WILLIAMS I'm looking for an intensity of focus. It's a bit like tuning a guitar string. You tighten a... LENNY ABRAHAMSON Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, ... MICHAEL CAINE 'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, eve... ELLEN MUTH I'm not thinking about me that much anymore. Every time I look, I'm looking for my daughter,... ALESSANDRA AMBROSIO I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what's happened. It does he... RAHUL DRAVID It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there ... GABBY DOUGLAS It's funny the way life works. Sometimes you go around in a weird path to find out exactly what ... HAYLIE DUFF I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and... RORY MCCANN If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what ... ZOOEY DESCHANEL To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenar... DREW ROY A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that y... CAMERON SINCLAIR I like cartoons. I like 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.' It's funny! It has th... DAVID ARCHULETA I tend to be that swimmer that doesn't look like she is trying, but is actually dying on the ins... CATE CAMPBELL Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out ... TARSEM SINGH It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back ... MARILYN MANSON I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I... CATHERINE TATE I'm not that good looking. That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome use... PSY I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, ... JAMES LEE BURKE It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the sc... T. J. MILLER People hate me for whatever reasons they come up with, or they hate me because their friends said th... RYAN SHECKLER The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That's why they call it standby. Y... JERRY SEINFELD It's very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it's not r... AURORA I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilo... VIOLA DAVIS I am very benign-looking. I'm somewhat like a golden retriever: It's not hard to look at me.... ELIZABETH MITCHELL It's the worst when you're kissing someone who's not a good kisser, and you're tryin... DREW BARRYMORE For me, I have to love it and feel something for it because you're going to be stuck with it for... CHARLES S. DUTTON Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-ni... SAM SMITH I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's s... JASON REITMAN It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think ... DEBORAH MOGGACH There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused ... JUDE LAW As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about... ERYKAH BADU I'm one of the lucky directors that pretty much every movie I've done has started a franchis... LOUIS LETERRIER It's overkill when you put too much fragrance on. It's the worst. Not sexy, and it makes me ... 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MASSIMINO Nothing's the same anymore. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI All love is unrequited. All of it. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI As things unravel, it's a larger conspiracy, so basically after the second year ? the show you think... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. Th... MICHAEL J. GELB Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order excee... MICHAEL J. GELB A champion views resistance as a gift of energy. MICHAEL J. GELB Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriousl... MICHAEL J. GELB I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language. J. 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SANDEL First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the prin... MICHAEL J. SANDEL I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemica... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO The sense of respiration is an example of our natural sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix... MICHAEL J. COHEN They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, t... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintel... MICHAEL J. BEHE It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harsh... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided t... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The rumor mill will always grind the grain of misinformation into the flour of untruth and the peopl... J. MICHAEL BREWER The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time,... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully ... MICHAEL J. BEHE The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecula... MICHAEL J. BEHE Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - sc... MICHAEL J. BEHE The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or... MICHAEL J. BEHE Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of ... MICHAEL J. BEHE There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I reall... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Everyone stared in shock at the pool of white robes and the bright-red blood that began to stain the... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN First and foremost, the chicken was flooded with bad omens in the same overwhelming manner that Suri... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I hav... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has el... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Well, do you still make that marvelous wine? The pale red one, with a hint of nuts? I’ve boasted a... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Do you see the butterfly?” Suri grinned with enthusiasm. “Yes, I see it, but—” �... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN