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- This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth.
- It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you…
- Everyone’s childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don’t know if I’m just giving up with…
- Sometimes I think I was more in control of my life years and years ago, and yet one should make progress; one should learn more…
- Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if…
- Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.
- A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where…
- I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me- and that I've made…
- With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for…
- A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
- Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
- The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
- I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
- Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his…
- I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.
- I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
- My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will…
- There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and…
- Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would…
- Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?'…
- Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day…
- Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll…
- This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is…
- When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn…
- Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong