Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Somebody Quotes from famous persons: Allan Holdsworth, Vince Flynn, Aaron Sorkin, Kofi Kingston, Mary Todd Lincoln. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Somebody Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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It’s obviously flattering when somebody likes something one is doing. But at the same time, I get embarrassed about it. It’s the ‘I’m not worthy syndrome.’
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Being in love with somebody is a wonderful feeling.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
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I didn’t have to be somebody I wasn’t coming into the league. I had a great foundation from my family.
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If you don’t know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it’ll be less than you’re worth.
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Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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I feel like if I can help somebody look at money differently or manage their finances differently or spend a little differently, then I feel like I’m doing my job. So I’ll try to help them see the bigger picture and think longevity versus the temporary spending that we’re kind of accustomed to.
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I am a reserved guy and need somebody to pep me up every day, Upsi does that job perfectly. She is very vivacious and outspoken, so we blend very well. We both love travelling, and we have a thing for adventure. We love being outdoors and like to ride our own boat rather than being rowed by someone else.
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I’d be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.
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Cold calling is about developing social skills and getting used to rejection. We are constantly selling something to somebody.
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If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that’s concentration.
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You don’t have to be poor to need something or somebody.
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If you’re my woman, you’re somebody I give emotions to that I don’t give to nobody else. You’re my safe space. I don’t want my safe space to be compromised.
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I’ve always felt that if something is polarizing, that’s usually the stuff I like the most. If something is taking a chance and is willing to be weird, that’s my favorite thing. I know there’s somebody out there who hates it.
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Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don’t know. It goes through somebody’s brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that’s really interesting.
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I was a fan of DMC but I was captivated by Run’s style, I wanted to be the man. As a kid, when somebody got that kinda influence over a child… you know how strong that can be.
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Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!
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In my stories, whenever there’s somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that’s me!
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The only thing I can do with my bitcoin is give it to somebody else.
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I think my job is to leave some evidence for future generations that there was somebody who cared while we were destroying everything.
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I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.
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I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they’re passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.
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We use a term called ‘empowerment through empathy.’ And ‘Me Too’ is so powerful, because somebody had said it to me – right? – and it changed the trajectory of my healing process once I heard that.
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One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. It’s just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else’s web server, you’re defenceless.
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I can’t stay mad very long. I get grumpy when I read a bad review. I say, ‘How could he say that about my music?’ Then I forget about it. If I got mad every time somebody wrote something negative about me, I’d be exploding all the time. I’d be burned out just from reading reviews.
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I mean, if you’re being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who’s really smart, it’s great. If you’re being told what to do by a nincompoop – and luckily that hasn’t happened very often – it can be very frustrating.
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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
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The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It’s not for us. It’s maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don’t slam the door.
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The country is yearning for a change. I’d rather take my chances on somebody new, particularly with regard to the Supreme Court.
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Somebody’s upset with every movie.
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Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that’s their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
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Don’t try to be somebody you’re not because it doesn’t work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they’re involved in public office, it’s just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.
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It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.
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Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.
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Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.
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The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it’s to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it’s well-received and lives in somebody else.
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I don’t even know where to start in terms of people having such an issue about color, especially being dark. I just think on different levels it’s ignorance; it’s no belief, no confidence, it’s insecurity, so you want to inflict it on somebody else.
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As somebody who happens to be gay, I particularly resent that minorities are being encouraged to be fragile and bitter.
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It’s easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.
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I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.
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If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it’s what they want to hear or not.
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Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn’t really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that’s really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they’d laugh at it.
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I never want to be like somebody but be my own person, but follow along those lines like a Matt Millen, Michael Strahan. There’s so many players that have transitioned to being an anchor or a broadcaster, and it kind of just goes hand-in-hand.
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The idea is to improve somebody’s day. That’s how I’ve always viewed my job. I’m a distraction therapist. I make people’s problems go away for just a little bit.
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It might be okay for somebody else on the roster to sit on the sideline but it’s not okay for me to be. I’m the franchise player, I’m the guy on both the microphone and in the ring.
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Never too late to change your relationship with somebody in your life.
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The underlying message of the Neighborhood is that if somebody cares about you, it’s possible that you’ll care about others. ‘You are special, and so is your neighbor’ – that part is essential: that you’re not the only special person in the world. The person you happen to be with at the moment is loved, too.
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What annoys people is the idea that somebody has everything, and they’re allowed to get away with anything. It’s the sense of entitlement that gets up people’s noses.
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I just talk just to talk. I like to see what other people think. There’s some things somebody tweets me every day where I’m like, ‘Wow, I never thought of this issue that way.’ It starts great conversation with people who I would never get a chance to actually communicate with.
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I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody’s living room.
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One morning, about four o’clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I’m falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.
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It’s a delight to trust somebody so completely.
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In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don’t have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.
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If you’re telling a story, and somebody is going to come out badly, it better be you.
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Somebody up there likes me. It ain’t like I’ve followed a well trodden trajectory.
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We rarely know what motivates somebody in their work, and it’s usually a particular moment in their life. For me, that moment is my brother‘s incarceration and the ways in which this country has decided to neglect, abuse, and sometimes torture people with severe mental illness, especially if they’re black.
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You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That’s when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That’s what ‘Time Is Love’ is all about.
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I feel like if you’re in a bad situation, and then you see somebody that’s even in a worse situation, you feel for that person.
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I think, in general, this country makes a huge deal about nudity and not a big enough deal about violence. We’re allowed to cut people’s heads off on shows – but not allowed to show breasts or somebody breastfeeding or whatever. I think it’s a big deal in America especially. But I think to each is own.
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‘Don’t try.’ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.
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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
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It’s so interesting how you can take a bad situation and make a great song out of it that somebody else can listen to and have a completely different perspective of the song and have their own meaning. That’s what’s great about it.
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Well, there’s not a day goes by when I don’t get up and say thank you to somebody.
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I get criticized for being me. I’m enjoying life, and people see it as me not being serious. Not taking the game seriously. You shouldn’t hate somebody for being themselves, for enjoying themselves.
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An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it’s an infallible message from God.
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Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers.
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The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.
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I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train.
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I’m not somebody that’s trying to be somebody else. I’m being myself for the most part and people respect that.
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Slang is really coded talk. I can say a few things, in front of somebody, that only people who know what I’m saying are going to pick up on.
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I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.
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Just go up to somebody on the street and say ‘You’re it!’ and then run away.
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It’s easier to sell cotton candy than it is to sell broccoli to somebody, but the broccoli is better for you, and the same thing with a limited government.
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I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I’m good, I don’t think I’m great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.
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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.
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At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived the way you wanted to.
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It is a false belief to think you can own somebody, I’m out of that now. The man should understand he does not own the woman, and the woman should understand she does not own the man.
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If you’re going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I’ve never met, new friends.
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Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.
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Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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I’m an activist. I’m a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.
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The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
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We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they’re wrong.
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A lot of times when you keep it real with somebody, you can’t expect them to keep it real with you.
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Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend.
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My goal is just to inspire. To tell people that’s going through the same thing that I went through, that there’s somebody out there that knows… that can relate.
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It would be great to do a story and get somebody who is innocent out of jail. That’s a wonderful thing.
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If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.
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A lot of times, I was about to get a role, but then somebody called. The father or mother would call and a starlet would get it. If somebody is with someone and the heroine is his muse or girlfriend, then she would get the role. All this has happened to me.
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With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.
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Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
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A lot of beefs in the music industry are caused from miscommunication and just not really understanding what’s going on, having people in your ear saying this is what somebody did, or this is what somebody did to you.
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I have this deep and abiding faith in God. But this does not mean that you have to have a religion or follow somebody.
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Once you start rooting against somebody, you’re always going to look for the negative in everything they do.
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As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.
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I think I’ve kind of been mistaken for somebody who’s trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I’m not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I’m not trying to make other people do what I do.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Somebody said once ‘Follow the money’ and that is what it is all about.
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I’d just much rather see an ugly person take the trash out than see somebody really pretty taking the trash out.
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I don’t go by or change my attitude based on what people say. At the end of the day, they, too, are judging me from their perspective. I would rather be myself and let people accept me for what I am than be somebody who I am not, just because I want people’s approval.
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Everybody is responsible for their own actions. It’s easy to point the finger at somebody else, but a real man, a real woman, a real person knows when it’s time to take the blame and when to take responsibility for their own actions.
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An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn’t matter if you’re a kid or if you’re a grown-up, it doesn’t matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.
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I’d rather be by myself than be spending any time or energy on somebody that I didn’t feel sure about.
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It’s wonderful to be in love. And it’s definitely wonderful to cuddle and have sex and get to experience life with somebody. But it’s OK if you don’t find him and you’re 24. You can find it someday.
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I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there’s always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently.
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I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.
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If you’re going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you’re tearing down someone else’s hero. You’re tearing down somebody else’s son. You might have to face her one day.
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About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
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My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.
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I don’t want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old – somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
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For everyone of us that succeeds, it’s because there’s somebody there to show you the way out.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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I really like how the characters always has to go through some type of long journey that’s like a crazy struggle. And these anime shows give women power. She’s always the queen or somebody that you cannot beat – I love that.
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I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
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You don’t have to use aggression to squash somebody. You have to use your brain.
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Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.
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Success to me is anybody who does something better than somebody else.
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We all have those days when you feel like you’re against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!
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It started back in 2002, when there was hardly any reality television. ‘Survivor‘ had just started. My hope and dream was that ‘The Bachelor‘ would last one or two nights on network TV, so I might meet somebody in the network and then I could get a real job.
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I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a good shot, and then I see somebody that has a better shot.
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Just as I wouldn’t expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won’t do debates with Young Earth creationists.
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That’s a feeling I always have when I’m auditioning.
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The first thing I think about when somebody says you’re going to be the first Muslim is celebrate this moment.
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Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
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I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
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I’ve been compared to a lot of redheads. Here’s the thing though: you can look nothing like somebody, but if you both have red hair, all of a sudden people think you look exactly the same.
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I just want to be happy. You know what I’m saying? I just want to be happy, and I want to be able to make somebody else happy.
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Golf is fun – until you hit somebody in the head.
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Maybe one of the most heartening findings from the psychology of pleasure is there’s more to looking good than your physical appearance. If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.
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You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said ‘Parking Fine.’
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Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else’s affairs.
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I want to be as creative as I want. I don’t ever want to have to compromise; I don’t ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don’t ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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Being Latino and being an actor has been a unique struggle and opportunity. When you don’t fit into what may be a more stereotypical vision of somebody whose name is Pedro is, it can be a little bit harder to navigate.
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How you use your voice is really important, and it’s really driven by context more than anything else, and your tone of voice will immediately begin to impact somebody’s mood and immediately how their brain functions.
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People destroy relationships because they force unnecessary issues instead of letting it grow naturally and organically. Once somebody feels trapped or forced into something it’s only a matter of time before they run.
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I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word ‘diva’ and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn’t afraid to show it.
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Let’s suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
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But I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.
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When one loves somebody everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
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There’s no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody’s face just by walking into a room. It’s unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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Freedom isn’t to do what you want at somebody else’s expense.
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Johnnie Cochran was such a heroic figure for getting the acquittal of O.J. Simpson, and the acquittal was such a historical event because it was the first time that I’d seen somebody who looked like me have the criminal justice system work in their favor rather than against.
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With my intellect, I’m somebody who can think fast, think on my feet and can think under pressure.
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I think that type of mindset, no matter if you’re 16-0, you’re rolling through the playoffs, no matter what the situation is, there’s always going to be somebody that’s doubting you or saying something about you. I think for certain guys individually, it may be something that kind of gives you that extra kick.
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It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He’s such a pro. He’s so good.
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Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody’s got a louder mouth than them; it doesn’t make any sense.
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You can’t stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.
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I just don’t think it’s very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody’s ottoman.
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I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
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The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.
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That’s the thing with dementia. If you’re with somebody who has a serious illness, you can usually talk to them, have a laugh every now and then – the person is still with you. With dementia, there’s no conversation; there’s no togetherness, no sharing.
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I think to adequately manage a crisis, you have to see it. Because there’s only so much somebody else can tell you about it, and they impose their own distortions on the description. You need to see it yourself.
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It’s not a good feeling to hide a huge part of your life. If you were meant to be somebody else, you’d be somebody else, so don’t change who you are.
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My best background is, like, smash opponents. I all the time go forward. I all the time try to take down somebody. Make him give up. This is my style, you know. This is what I do all my life.
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We must have zero tolerance for sexual harassment, even if the perpetrator is somebody we like and admire.
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Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it’s hard for somebody not to like you.
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We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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Somebody asked me – you know, how come it took you so long to win a national championship? And I said, ‘I’m a slow learner; but you notice when I learn something, I have it down pretty good.’
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He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he’s always operating.
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The way people come into your life when you need them, it’s wonderful and it happens in so many ways. It’s like having an angel. Somebody comes along and helps you get right.
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I’m sure there’s somebody out there who doesn’t like Betty White because she’s short and has white hair.
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If somebody is good to me, I’ll reciprocate. What’s the harm? If somebody says ‘Hello’ to me, I won’t turn my back on him.
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It’s not just what do you for yourself. It’s how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn’t big anything better than the golden rule. It’s in every major religion in one language or another.
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I don’t ever wish I was somebody else.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role – some people can do it, and some people can’t.
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I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I’m used to doing.
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I think a lot of comedy is about making fun of people at the expense of somebody.
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You can’t change somebody’s character, but you can change the way a person presents themselves.
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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
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I think comedy is a good way to help people change their minds. I think that if you’re laughing and getting a message across, it’s a lot easier than when somebody is screaming in your face.
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Don Rickles and I are best friends. I know that might seem strange to those who know Don only by reputation, but somebody has to be his friend. Just to make sure I don’t forget, Don gave me a doormat that sits just outside the front door of my house. It reads: ‘The Newharts: The Rickleses Best Friends.’
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Somebody asked me about the current choice we’re being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it’s like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.
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It’s never guaranteed for somebody to be successful. It just really be God.
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The more time you spend with somebody, the more your relationship grows.
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Somebody actually tattooed my face on his arm. In a couple years, that will be the equivalent of having a Screech tattoo.
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I’ve got my own businesses I run every day and I like to think I’m a nurturer rather than a firer, but the reality is, if somebody continues not to succeed and do the right thing for the business they lose the job because they are affecting the livelihoods of others.
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Soon, I’m going to meet somebody around my own age, and she’s going to be smart and beautiful, and I’m going to date her daughter.
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One false word, one extra word, and somebody’s thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you’re going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.
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If somebody knows me, they know for sure I’m from Poland because I’m playing for my country every tournament, every match. I’m staying in my hometown and my home country because that is where I feel comfortable. I feel good there.
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If you can fart in front of somebody, you know that they love you.
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It seems to limit you; when you’re working in an office, you’re a creature in a small cell under somebody’s supervision and surveillance.
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You need somebody just to say, ‘Hey, I’m here for you. Do you need anything?’ If you can get somebody like that, you can make it, no question about it. You can make it.
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You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don’t just follow the herd like somebody else might do.
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The luckiest person in the world is somebody who is born into a small, shabby-genteel town on a major railway connection with 24,000 souls and a bird sanctuary and whose grandfather owns a farm and whose father owns a business -whose family is mildly prosperous but not rich, which means you can leave the town.
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When you see me smash somebody’s skull, you enjoy it.
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No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.
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Even the finest actors will have great difficulty showing somebody’s loneliness. To put an actor on a chair and ask him to do nothing and yet tell the viewer everything about the character, it’s a difficult task.
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
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Somebody said to me, ‘But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.’ That’s a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ‘Now, let’s write a swimming pool.’
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So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
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I got taught respect because if not, somebody’s gonna make you respect them.
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I think it’s fun to serve comfort food because it’s an instant ice-breaker. If somebody’s expecting fancy food, and you whip out some fried chicken, they feel like, you know, they can put their elbows on the table, and the etiquette police aren’t going to come out.
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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
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You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, ‘Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.’
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Coming up in this country, I’ve seen it so many times. When you see somebody rising you want to tear them down because you feel inadequate and you want to call it humble.
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You can’t be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.
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I liked being able to speak to somebody and throw it back and forth, and they can’t predict what you’re going to say next.
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When somebody tells you they’re not very smart, they’re saying exactly the opposite.
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I think marrying somebody who’s not a celebrity, it just takes a lot of the pressure off.
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When somebody has convinced you that you’re not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.
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When I record somebody else’s song, I have to make it my own or it doesn’t feel right. I’ll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn’t know it!
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No matter how many times you say you’re sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.
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I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
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I do like to have guns around. I don’t like to carry them. But I like – if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.
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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
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Well, bitcoin is a currency. Bitcoin has no underlying rate of return. You know, bonds have an interest coupon. Stocks have earnings and dividends. Gold has nothing, and bitcoin has nothing. There is nothing to support the bitcoin except the hope that you will sell it to somebody for more than you paid for it.
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I find if you are in an office, the crisis finds you. If you’re not in the office, the crisis finds somebody else.
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I wasn’t trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn’t have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.
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Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it’s turned into.
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The brain sure as hell doesn’t work by somebody programming in rules.
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I’ve never felt like I needed to change. I’ve always thought, ‘If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.’ But sure, criticism can sometimes still get to me. Some things are so malicious, they knock the wind out of you.
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I have a sweet tooth. I love dessert, and if somebody makes me one, I’m going to have it.
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In 2018, nothing is sacred. Everyone is everywhere and knows everybody. I don’t text too personal because somebody might screenshot it and share it.
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You can’t take it on that you’re responsible for somebody else’s well-being, but you can be positive and bring them up.
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You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody’s gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.
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You’ve got to love yourself first. You’ve got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.
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When I love somebody, I cannot drop it out of my life. Love is not something like you open and you close, you know?
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You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
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Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you’re really connecting.
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Books of exploration have always fascinated me, like somebody going up the Amazon for the first time.
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Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‘Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.’
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Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.
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The heart and soul of a Navy SEAL is somebody who’s committed to their country and committed to their teammates.
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I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding in a way that is going to be useful to somebody else… For me, living every day in gratitude has been profound for me.
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Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.
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Somebody with a billion followers can tweet, ‘See my movie,’ and it can still tank. Followers don’t always translate into success because I think people are too savvy. When something takes off, it’s because people are connecting to it – not because someone with a lot of followers says to care about it.
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My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of.
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The film Punch – Drunk Love is how you see the world when you’re in love. You don’t see somebody’s psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light.
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It’s not like you can say, ‘This is the right side and this is the wrong side,’ because obviously, a happy person is never going to want to inflict pain on somebody else. So the bullies are really victims themselves and yada, yada, yada, pop psychology, but it’s true.
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Money begets money. If you don’t have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that’s generating income for yourself.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.
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What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the public image of somebody.
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To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.
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It’s funny, sometimes life just comes down to bringing a little bit of light to somebody when you can.
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I can’t always control my body the way I want to, and I can’t control when I feel good or when I don’t. I can control how clear my mind is. And I can control how willing I am to step up if somebody needs me.
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Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
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Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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In my real life, I’m a Black Lives Matter social justice activist, and so it was incredibly interesting to me to play somebody coming from the totally opposite side, whose beliefs are as deeply entrenched – as deeply felt, and given as much gravity, as I give my beliefs.
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I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.
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If you look at the developments in the international scene over the past many years, we haven’t been able to resolve many problems and many crises, because we have approached them from a zero-sum perspective. My gain has always been defined as somebody else’s loss, and through that, we never resolve problems.
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I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that’s beautiful.
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A really irritating thing when you’re watching a film is if somebody’s accent isn’t bang-on – it distracts you from getting into the story because you’re thinking: ‘Where are they from?’
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Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody’s brain, I’m thinking, ‘This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains memories. Everything that they’ve ever experienced is right in there.’
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But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?
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I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.
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Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.
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Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it’s even more than that – Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody – or your soul.
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The main three components are the blues, improvisation – which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up – and swing, which means even though they’re making up music, they’re trying to make it up together. It feels great, like you’re having a great conversation with somebody.
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In Afghanistan, you don’t understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself.
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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 said, ‘Remember, you’re not a star.’ Yet there it was up in lights.
