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The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.
— Harry Browne
I want to be great, something special.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something.
— Chloe Thurlow
Something I'd like to be perfect at? ... Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd want to be perfect at loving you.
— Markus Zusak
It [what you choose to do] has got to be something that you're passionate about because otherwise you won't have the perseverance to see it through.
— Steve Jobs
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
— Sydney J. Harris
Why, Andrew, why would it irritate me? Do you think that being loved by you is something to be ashamed of? I don't.
— Andrew Ashling
I think personal power is having the availability to say, 'No' to something, whatever that may be.
— Anika Noni Rose
I live like a Nazi war criminal or a serial killer... like I have something to be ashamed of.
— Elliott James
took something serious away from it. I told myself I would never get so deep into my cups that I wouldn't be able to play.
— Duff McKagan
The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.
— Dick Cavett
When you're a dad, there's no one above you. If I don't do something that has to be done, who is going to do it?
— Jonathan Safran Foer
She could never simply sit somewhere and let time pass, she had to be learning something.
— Zadie Smith
Maybe it's that we are all so starved for something good to happen that we want to be a part of it.
— Suzanne Collins
Who says there has to be a point?" He asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.
— Sarah Dessen
When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be happy.
— Ernie J Zelinski
Boys go to Washington to be somebody ... men go to do something.
— John J. McCloy
It's nice to be part of something that could grow into something else and be there at the beginning of it.
— Luke Evans
When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.
— Gloria Steinem
I get to be in movies where it's mostly dialogue, and I want to be in something, that for me, feels like kickboxing.
— Derek Luke
Willpower is a learnable skill, something that can be taught the same way kids learn to do math and say thank you.
— Charles Duhigg
Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.
— Laura Matilda Towne
A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.
— Craig Ferguson
There's something animalistic about this man. Something I want to be a part of. Something I want to be included in. He's a force of nature.
— Belle Aurora
Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.
— Gary Player
In order to accomplish something, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish it.
— Mike Hernacki
When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.
— Bernard Arnault
Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.
— Robert Morley
A person couldn't make something last if it wasn't meant to, like a person couldn't be someone they weren't. And trying only prolonged the inevitable.
— Mira Lyn Kelly
To obtain something, something of equal value must be lost.
— Hiromu Arakawa
Kept looking for something to be in with. Follow someone's blueprint. But you have to be on your own.
— Donald Glover
Good taste is not something you can be taught. It's not something you obtain in a store or go to college to learn.
— Pat Conroy
People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you've gotta learn to stand up to them, so don't be offended if I say something you don't like.
— Eminem
In order to do something you must be something.
— James Stockdale
Is there something I can do to kill the cancer germ? Can the rooms be fumigated ... ? Should I give up my lease and move out?
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Let me tell you something. Boring women get a bad rap. There's a lot to be said for boring women.
— Jerry Stahl
And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.
— Anselm Of Canterbury
If I need something, I just draw it, have a few friends make it move, and it exists. I enjoy this strange power. I try to be a good sorcerer, though.
— Michel Ocelot
I always loved to cook and entertain but I realized I had the chance to be successful with something that I am passionate about.
— Lorena Garcia
Everyone is overcoming something, be gentle.
— Nikki Rowe
Don't dare to be different, dare to be yourself - if that doesn't make you different then something is wrong.
— Laura Baker
But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
— Jane Austen
Actors strive to be part of something like 'Twilight' and what 'Twilight' is, is unbelievable.
— Kellan Lutz
When you work on something in an edit room with just a couple of other people, you never know how it is going to be received.
— Marshall Curry
I don't mind throwing something away. It should be your best or it should be what you want people to hear and something that's good for people.
— Matt Corby
He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Something bad happen to a child, you can be sure his daddy gone be off somewhere else.
— Hillary Jordan
People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.
— Tammy Faye Bakker
Responsible, who wants to be responsible? Whenever something bad happens, it's always, who's responsible for this?
— Jerry Seinfeld
As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.
— Nicole Richie
It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.
— Guy Finley
Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.
— Craig Ferguson
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
— Charles Jencks
Something cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing.
— Swami Vivekananda
Nyx had to admit she had a soft spot for plain folks. There was something to be said for finding beauty in the rough.
— Kameron Hurley
BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.
— Ambrose Bierce
It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.
— Margaret Thatcher
It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.
— St. Jerome
Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.
— Ann Leckie
If something wants to be a story, it will be.
— Scarlett Thomas
If I was going to do something I didn't want to do, I at least wanted to be remunerated for it.
— Margaret Atwood
To make something you have to be something.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado
Sometimes you can be good at something that you still find really hard. Sometimes, to be good at something, you just need to keep showing the fuck up.
— Junot Diaz
Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?
— Bret Easton Ellis
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become ... as strong as they can be.
— Masashi Kishimoto
people don't generally believe themselves to be evil. Just strong. And they think that the world owes them something
— Mary Elizabeth Summer
I'm happy, certainly, given the times we're living in, to be doing OK, and to not be worrying about money, and to be producing something I enjoy.
— Marc Maron
To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.
— John Kricfalusi
Hey, why you are staring at me with a gaze like something I have done wrong, waiting wrong to be done by me...
— Deyth Banger
Any time you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something that you have to do for yourselves.
— Malcolm X
It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.
— Glenn Close
Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.
— J. C. Watts
Know something?" Brandon said. "I think the most interesting people I'll meet these days will be criminals - or people about to become criminals.
— Jim Lynch
Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.
— Ville Valo
What allows us to be human is something daemonic.
— Heraclitus
Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.
— Mira Sorvino
I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.
— Zachary Quinto
All I try to do in the press is to be honest about something that I really care about.
— Kristen Stewart
Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it.
— Swami Vivekananda
Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right.
— Dave Ramsey
If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.
— Peter M. Brant
I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.
— Quentin Blake
You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.
— Laurie R. King
I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.
— Ralph Fiennes
No matter what's happening, choose to be happy. Don't focus on what's wrong. Find something positive in your life. Thank God for the small things.
— Joel Osteen
... something's wrong with me, it's something about me. It has to be because all these people cannot have changed.
— Harper Lee
You are what you pretend to be so you better pretend something good.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.