Justin Timberlake Quotes
I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.
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My whole approach is very much about using the locations as a world, trying to find the beauty in the time of day we shoot or the ugliness of it, in cases.
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I'm restless. I'm all the time here and there and trying to get myself busy and creative. It's something that's part of my personality since I was a kid.
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We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.
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I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.
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Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.
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Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
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What is portraiture? It's choice. It's the ability to position your body in the world for the world to celebrate you on your own terms.
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I usually hate most of my work: probably at least more than half of it.
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I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.
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I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
