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• I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Character

• You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Sports
  • Win
  • Lose

• It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Finish
  • Coach

• Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Nature
  • Focus
  • Environment

• My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Best
  • New York

• To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Great
  • Job

• I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Single
  • Sex
  • Kiss

• Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • Singing
  • Expression

• It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Black

• We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our worry. So what you get for paying those high taxes is, if you're a parent thinking about putting your child through school, you don't have to worry about it, because all education through college is free.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • School

• I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Work
  • Me
  • Things

• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Up
  • May
  • Change

• We are all born with God-given, unique traits and skills. But, as with all possibilities they will remain unrealized unless they are developed, nurtured, and put into practice. You may have the 'capacity' to love, but if left undeveloped, you will never gain the 'ability.'

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • God
  • May
  • Practice

• I've sung in the shower for years.

  

  Chris Pine

• I had the chance to play with Benny 'The King' Carter here in Copenhagen for three days in the Montmartre, and two days in Paris. 'What a Thrill.' He knows so much music, and he is the only person that I get the shakes trying to play my horn behind or with him (smile). However, it was a ball.

  

  Ben Webster
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Play

• To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Happy

• Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • inspirational
  • Exercise
  • Potatoes

• The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Know
  • Look

• It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Age
  • Chance
  • Human Beings

• I am happy I have competition. It keeps me on my toes all the while and stops me from becoming complacent. So, it works to my advantage.

  

  Ameesha Patel
  • Competition
  • Advantage
  • Becoming

• Lets take full advantage of this discovery

  

  William James
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