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An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might.

— Scott Stossel

My two sons are the most important things in the world to my wife and I - they are what I build…

— Rob Lowe

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8.…

— Yani Tseng

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

— Agnes Obel

If you leave songs sitting around, you do yourself a disservice. You have to put them out there.

— LP

I guess it's a stigma I picked up from the army - I don't like being around a lot of people.

— Jared Cannonier

I don't want negativity to be around me, so I stay with a positive outlook.

— Pooja Bedi

For me, learning chess was natural; with my sisters around me, I wanted to play.

— Judit Polgar

You decide you're going to do horror, then gosh darn it, do horror. Do what's expected. Don't kind of do it. Don't…

— Roberta Williams

Growing up, I felt like I couldn't talk about certain things until I had the outlets to do so. Once you're able…

— Miles Heizer

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we…

— John Pomfret

We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't…

— Idina Menzel

There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the…

— Marc Davis

I like to do stuff for my brothers and sisters to appreciate because they look up to me, and for other kids…

— Kyla Pratt

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now.…

— Carlos Santana

So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now…

— Eriq La Salle

To be sure, the Fair Tax is a big idea. However, I believe America was built on big ideas, and I was…

— Rob Woodall

As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour,…

— Sid Waddell

I was shocked when I moved to Sydney how very few indigenous people I came across. And so when I go to…

— Shari Sebbens

In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little…

— Trent Reznor

Work used to be the No. 1 important thing to me. Everything revolved around it, and to have a new perspective and…

— Lindsay Price

I don't think I'm the best-looking actress around. I'm not Katrina Kaif; she is stunningly beautiful. There are some roles that might…

— Anushka Sharma

Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally speaking, most wine…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

I have great respect for people who live out their beliefs. For example, Ed Begley Jr. is an environmentalist, but he really…

— Mike Huckabee

If I'm not around, it's not because I don't want to be, it's because I can't.

— Simone Giertz

I don't really own anything. It makes me more fluent, er, fluid. More fluent, too, because I've learned a lot of languages…

— Denny Laine

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

— Jayson Blair

I'm like this ghost - you look around, and all you see is the artist. But if you look at the credits,…

— Poo Bear

Usually in my own shows I'm running around like crazy, climbing on things, jumping on people.

— Peaches

Simon is cool. You know, it's different if you ever see him around his mom. He acts totally different.

— Ruben Studdard

It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever.

— Evan Spiegel

Every time people try and define me, it gets battered around. I like to keep people guessing.

— Jade Bird

I've got people around me that let me know when something really good happens.

— Lauren Alaina

I was always the shy one around, I wouldn't sing even in family gatherings.

— Akhil Akkineni

I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.

— Abraham A. Ribicoff

It sounds lonely being Bob Dylan, because Bob Dylan likes being around other Bob Dylans, and there are not many other Bob…

— Tom Junod

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.

— Marvin Minsky

There were times when I just couldn't be around noise, and people talking in the same room would have been too much…

— Ryan Mason

Tyler Perry's movies can double what they do domestically with the right plan for selling them around the world.

— James Lassiter

I don't have a circus around me, and that's a choice. I like to be on Planet Earth as much as possible.

— Josh Groban