When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go.
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Im sure eve... AARON KATZ I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepa... DANIEL CORMIER Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona. CHARLIE DAY I'm just going to go out and pitch. I don't pick where I go. I'll let the team decide. I'm just goin... GAVIN FLOYD I no longer worry about what could go wrong. ERIC LITT At this point, I'm really not going to worry about it. The only thing I can do is go out and hit the... CRAIG WILSON You become a parent, and your whole life becomes about worrying. You just worry constantly whether t... DREW MAGARY I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I becom... DAVID LYNCH People have perceptions about you. I tend not to worry about it. If my name is called, I try to go o... ALLEN ROSSUM Is there ever anything to get unduly worried about,' Peter couldn't help asking, 'when there ... EDWARD ST. AUBYN The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even wh... DAN CASTELLANETA Jace hated it when other people were worried on his behalf. It made him feel like maybe there really... CASSANDRA CLARE When I go to the grocery store or when I walk into a convenience (store), when I go get gas, I have ... MIKE HARDING When I get on an airplane, I am less worried about the passengers than what is going into the hole b... LEE HAMILTON It feels great to me, like it's not even broke. I just tried to go out there and play hard and not w... MATT TRANNON I'm just going to go out every game like I know how to play and have fun doing it, and not worry abo... DAVID BOYKIN That is something we'll talk about after the season. I'll worry about that when the time comes. I wo... CLINT KRIEWALDT Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarras... DOROTHY PARKER The only time I worry about him is when he takes a big hit. When he breaks off a 70-yard run, I don'... JUSTIN GRIFFITH I know when I was younger, I didn't worry about too much of this stuff. JOE CAVALLARO I told my agent I'd prefer to sign before I go back home (to the Czech Republic), so I don't have to... ZBYNEK MICHALEK I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home. W. C. FIELDS If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it. DAVID SCHWIMMER I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on ... MIKE GODWIN Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS When I worry about privacy, I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anyt... JONATHAN ZITTRAIN I don't ever worry about the pets we have to put to sleep. It's the owners that really take it hard ... JULIE BREAULT I think it scares a couple of us. We were around when softball was made an Olympic sport, and we wer... KATIE KING I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry... JOHN LASSETER When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go. DAMON LINDELOF When I go to the movies, I like to see something different. DAVID FRANKEL The de-interaction of sex is something I worry about. JULIA HEIMAN I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not. DONNA LEON I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people - mostly female actresses and singers - and... KAT GRAHAM When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something. URSULA ANDRESS I didn't want to become a dog lover. I just wanted to be able to go out and not worry about whether ... HOLLY WARD I was all worried about not knowing anyone when I got up there. But there was nothing to worry about... ANGELA LEWIS When I see something, I go for it. JACKEE HARRY Surfing helps me with soccer and life. It's a good relief where I can go chill. I don't have to worr... DREW DELIS I won't forget when I couldn't go to bed with the lights off When I heard that voice call me in... REAL FRIENDS Even when she calls me sometimes, I wish I had something to offer her to make a day go easier, to ma... AMY WILLIAMS Last year, I would probably have worried about what I'm going to be doing. I just go start to start ... GAVIN FLOYD I think the Fed needs to worry about the possibility it's flirting with deflation if it lets this go... LYLE GRAMLEY As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom cryin... ADAM SANDLER We irrigated last week. Now we've just got to ride it out. Am I worried? What's to worry about? I ca... CHARLEY WOLK I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out t... JEAN-LUC BILODEAU There are only two things to worry about, either you are healthy or you are sick. If you are healthy... SOURCE UNKNOWN I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. ... GREG NORMAN Don't lie to yourself? SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I am not worried about facing Belgium. I get worried about things like the speed of bullets if I had... LUIS ARAGONES I worry about me - I worry about what I'm going to do. MAT ROGERS To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell. MARJANE SATRAPI When I'm hired just to be an actress, I don't have to worry about anything else but showing ... PAULA GARCES I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I jus... TAVI GEVINSON Well, sometimes I worry that my whole life will be based about what's comfortable and easy. I'll car... JULIA HOBAN I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. STEVEN WRIGHT I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. STEPHEN WRIGHT Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work. DOMINIC MONAGHAN I try not to worry about the weather too much. DAN CREWS I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we'... INGRID BERGMAN I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I alway... JAMES HETFIELD We can't really worry about whom we're racing and who we're not racing. We just need to go up there ... ELLIOTT SADLER I'm not worried I'm the tallest or smallest guy out there. I just want to make plays. I'll let you g... TIM DWIGHT I think the worry is they are going to say something negative about the third quarter. GRACE FEY I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was i... GABY HOFFMANN I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don'... JOE SCARBOROUGH It's the type of day that happens. I can't worry about it. These types of days happen. You just have... DANIEL HAIGWOOD Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely ... BENNY GREEN I have to go," he said at last, getting to his feet. "I shouldn't even be here, but I cannot keep my... LAUREN KATE I told him I would have too see about paying him, ... He told me not to worry about it. JIMMY WHITE When I'd get out of school in the afternoon, I would go to the golf course, and I just picked th... CHARLIE SIFFORD It's hard to really look at somebody and go: "Hey, maybe something nice will happen." You just don't... LOUIS C.K. I get a chance to play more, so it's a lot easier. You don't have to worry so much [about your next ... ANTERO NIITTYMAKI Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be ther... WOODY ALLEN All those stats erase once the ball is tipped off. I don't really worry about those numbers. I just ... ANTWI ATUAHENE There was something they weren't telling me, that Meridian didn't want to co-op, or our administrati... ROBERT NEWELL You know what I worry about? I worry that kids today don't have enough time to just sit and dayd... JUDY BLUME U.S. intelligence has the legal right to monitor foreign communications as they go through to U.S. s... MIKKO HYPPONEN I love to go hiking. I hike every day for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours in the hills around LA. I go to the... EMMANUELLE VAUGIER In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees. CASPER VAN DIEN I dont hate L.A. There's a very beautiful side to it; it's scenic, and I can go horse riding... LEONA LEWIS I think of myself as quite a shy person. But when I'm curious about something, I'll go quite... ALAIN DE BOTTON I worry about growing income inequality. But I worry even more that the discussion is too narrowly f... SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN If (auditions) are in Atlanta, I might go, but I have to travel I don't know if I will be able to. I... LAURA WRIGHT I don't go around saturated in guilt or anything like that. I do worry about things quite a lot,... LOUIS THEROUX I have been known to go to the grocery store and just buy pepperoni. There's just something fant... RACHEL NICHOLS I have to worry about my health, MARC CHERRY I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and... PAUL WILLIAM "BEAR" BRYANT I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and, all I like to do is go home and be alone, an... 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COTRONA Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk t... D. J. COTRONA I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a c... D. J. COTRONA Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am appalled by the dullness of that person. J. D. GRIFFIN Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to b... D. J. ENRIGHT I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor b... J. D. VANCE Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are s... J. D. HAYWORTH While faith need not be monolithic - it can motivate both voting behavior and character development ... J. D. VANCE On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony... J. D. VANCE I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Arg... J. D. PARDO I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my... J. D. SOUTHER I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monop... J. D. VANCE Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody ha... D. J. HICKS Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to... D. J. ENRIGHT My family has existed in eastern Kentucky for as long as there are records. If you're familiar w... J. D. VANCE It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and up... J. D. VANCE I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government larges... J. D. VANCE People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfull... J. D. VANCE In some ways, Trump's large, national coalition defies easy characterization. He draws from a br... J. D. VANCE I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. J. D. SOUTHER There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think... J. D. SOUTHER I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose th... J. D. VANCE My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose... J. D. VANCE It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that ... J. D. VANCE Hindsight follows consequence. However it does not necessarily follow, that as a result of the conse... J D GABRIEL For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciou... J. D. VANCE We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordere... J. D. VANCE One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregatio... J. D. VANCE I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by ev... J. D. VANCE I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so fa... J. D. VANCE For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other pe... J. D. VANCE Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty signif... J. D. VANCE Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it w... J. D. VANCE Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get ... J. D. VANCE If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist ... J. D. VANCE There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the governme... J. D. VANCE