Quotes with over-preoccupation

Quotes 341 till 360 of 1100.

  • Brooke Shields I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Bill Mauldin I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergents and jeeps which jump over mountains.
    Up Front
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Bruce Babbitt I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bette Davis I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Rodney Dangerfield I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Becki Newton I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I've accomplished a lot. I feel like I'm highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bruce Davison I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • Arianna Huffington I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Alexander Haig I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • Bela Karolyi I'm tired of being hunted all over. I can't go anywhere without criticism.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie I've always had that attitude about my career: it's something that I do, but it's not my whole life. I have a real life, a personal life: I've got a lot of chickens, I've got a horse, I've got a kitty-cat, I've got a lot of goats, I've got animals all over the place.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Leonard Bernstein I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.
    Leonard Bernstein
    American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist (1918 - 1990)
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  • Barbara Rosenblat I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
    Barbara Rosenblat
    British actress (1950 - )
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  • Steven Spielberg I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
    Steven Spielberg
    American director, producer, and screenwriter (1946 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Bruno Mars I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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