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With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.


Doris Roberts

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MARY STEENBURGEN I've known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don't know what I would do without her. ...
JASMINE GUINNESS Make me laugh. Make me cry. Tell me my place in the world. Lift me out of my skin and place me in an...
DENNIS O'NEIL I see kids and pets as similars. With both of them, you give without expecting something monetary in...
JOE GREEN It is amazing I was able to have them at my age and it's another incredible blessing that they are h...
JANE SEYMOUR My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my lif...
KATE VOEGELE My classmates surround me as I sit in this folding chair. They laugh and hug one another and talk ab...
AMANDA GRACE I just want to thank God for blessing me with some athletic talent and letting me play for the Unive...
DERRICK THOMAS I like to celebrate my life. I have a life that I'm really lucky to have, and so I want to make ...
CHELSEA HANDLER I look for a little bit of talent, something you can mold and work with, ... I look for a good attit...
CRAIG WALKER Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a ...
KATE ADIE Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emoti...
MARY PICKFORD Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emoti...
MARY PICKFORD With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that...
JOYCE GIRAUD There are young people having babies every day that cannot possibly take care of them, and, as peopl...
JOHN SCHNEIDER I love a girl that can make me laugh. I am not really a laugh-at-things type of guy and I don't smil...
JESSE MCCARTNEY For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I beca...
FRANZ KAFKA Life is about opportunities, creating them and embracing them, and for me, that was the Olympic drea...
JANINE SHEPHERD It's easy to make me laugh, you can make me laugh, anyone can make me laugh, but that certainly does...
C. JOYBELL C. What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that you forgot about me?
JODI PICOULT I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING I surround myself with people who make me laugh.
ALLEN IVERSON When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try...
RICHARD SIMMONS All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God,...
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JESSE MCCARTNEY Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure t...
BILL SHANKLY I close my eyes and think about the only thing that makes life worth the trials: Emma Kingsley, her ...
CRISTIN HARBER Every now and then, someone will tell me that one of my books has made them laugh out loud. I never ...
MARY ROACH My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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KATE HUDSON Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the bes...
DWIGHT HENRY What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay...
GEORGES ST-PIERRE Some people can be president, some people can speak, some people, you know, anything that's posi...
JUICY J I don’t know what else I can tell you, other than that I can imagine spending the rest of my life ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS For me, it is especially important to maintain my interior life. My spirituality, my connectedness. ...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's ...
JOYCE MEYER I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life....
SELMA BLAIR I made so many jokes about poor Russell Crowe, he once knocked on my dressing room door, and told me...
JOAN RIVERS I will find humor in my everyday life by looking for people I can laugh at
CHARLES M. SCHULZ I would make people who bullied me laugh, so that's my defense mechanism.
SHERRI SHEPHERD What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish it...
ALAN MOORE The way to disarm people into talking about issues that are confrontational is to make them laugh.
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MARC ABRAHAMS If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea tha...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN If you can make a living doing what you love, that is a blessing.
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DR. SHAILESH THAKER A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attit...
TOM BRADY My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with ...
MEEK MILL I can't even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.
THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. The trouble with Hollywood is that too many of the top people responsible for pictures are too comfo...
WILLIAM WYLER We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for...
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AMISHA PATEL My parents raised me with a never-give-up attitude, telling me I could be anything I wanted to be. I...
GRETCHEN CARLSON I've dealt with people (all) my life. I think I have good rapport with people. They know who I am an...
LEO HEFEL Nothing makes my day more than when someone comes up to me and says I bring them joy. That's why I d...
JUDY TENUTA To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabl...
CHRISTINE LAGARDE I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better ...
KENDRICK LAMAR The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want...
TREVOR NOAH Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope tha...
JAKE ROBERTS I've learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can't fool people. And so I only t...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE That sounds great to me. I want that. I want to show what I can do and showcase my talent.
AUNDRAE ALLISON 'Hustle' is wonderfully enjoyable because all my life, I've made an effort to be with pe...
ROBERT VAUGHN My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passion...
OLIVIA WILLIAMS Your attitude can either be your best friend who has your best interest at heart or your worst enemy...
STEPHANIE LAHART I find it comical that people who live from paycheck to paycheck laugh at me when I mention an angel...
BOBBY W. MILLER My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in pol...
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN 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 believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of atti...
CHARLES SWINDOLL I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of atti...
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL I don't think I can make people understand what my writing is about. That really belongs to time and...
BEN OKRI I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now ...
LUCY LAWLESS I love it when a woman hugs me. I love it when they say that I make them laugh because that means I&...
SHERRI SHEPHERD I wanted to have a label to not only release my own stuff but to also give young talent a chance to ...
MARTIN GARRIX My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Feeling like, life has been so unfair to me, but what can I say except, "I'm still here." So I'm det...
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving ...
BONNIE TYLER Every role is a potential lover. I ask: Are they someone I want to wake up to in the morning and go ...
AUNJANUE ELLIS Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI I don't need a psychiatrist to prod into my personal life and make me tell them all my secrets, I ha...
RONNIE SHAKES All great comedians make me laugh, but people make me laugh more.
LOUIE ANDERSON I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think yo...
JENNIFER DONNELLY It [speaking with words that bring about harmony] consists of speaking of what is good about people,...
JEAN-YVES LELOUP The main reason I got into comedy was in the hope that I could make a few people laugh and feel bett...
MIRANDA HART I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform i...
ROBIN WILLIAMS Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. -Doris Mortman.
DORIS MORTMAN A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, ...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY Could you please be as silent as the G in lasagna?
ABOUT LIFE Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
ABOUT LIFE I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too.
ABOUT LIFE I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo...
ABOUT LIFE My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, la...
CARLOS SANTANA It's my mission to try and give people fighting the disease the same gifts of laughter and a positiv...
ROBERT SCHIMMEL life is worth living with those who REALLY love you and cherish the time you have with them before i...
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DORIS LESSING How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want...
DORIS LESSING We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths ...
DORIS LESSING Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wantin...
DORIS LESSING Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
DORIS LESSING For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a w...
DORIS LESSING Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits ...
DORIS LESSING Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people...
DORIS LESSING Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish th...
DORIS LESSING I asked a member of the crew if I could have the sheets that Jon and George laid on autographed and ...
DORIS PINTER The worse thing I could have done is to live with a man and not be married. That was the worse thing...
DORIS PAYNE It's not the fun it used to be. I'm sure I won't be there next year.
DORIS NORTHAM I told everybody all year long that we've got a good team. To me, they just seem so aggressive.
DORIS NORTHAM When I was a kid, you know, you went to church and you went to ball games. And that was your enterta...
DORIS NORTHAM It was my firm conviction, then and now, that we did the right thing on April 22, and we are doing i...
DORIS MEISSNER That told us we had to be prepared for anything.
DORIS MEISSNER found the family functioning very well as a family.
DORIS MEISSNER They need more space and they need more privacy.
DORIS MEISSNER held in virtual slavery.
DORIS MEISSNER The arguments for better immigration enforcement and controls are perfectly legitimate, and obviousl...
DORIS MEISSNER have basically used the legal migration system to their advantage.
DORIS MEISSNER The longer we do it, the bigger it grows.
DORIS MARSHALL Our aids are very committed to serving their customers. Money may be a concern but they continue to ...
DORIS MARSHALL Our budget is really tight but we will continue to explore (increasing reimbursement), but I don't k...
DORIS MARSHALL I live in a neighborhood, but all the houses are different. There are a lot of different sizes and d...
DORIS LEADBETTER I think Great Falls is an anomaly because there are so many different types of houses. It's not like...
DORIS LEADBETTER