Everybody tells me, 'You're famous.' And I answer, 'I'm not Angelina Jolie!'
Amanda Knox
Recitation: by Male by Female
Sometimes in your career, you are at the right place at the right moment. But you have to be aware that eventually you may no longer be the right person for that position. So build your succession and foster for it while you are still at the peak of you career.
Joanne Liu
MomentRight PersonYouCareerPlace
My personal story has always been about perseverance and always getting up when I fall. Maybe I'm not Olympic champion, but I can teach the world about that.
Jeremy Abbott
PerseveranceWorldChampionStoryUp
Don't get me wrong. I don't mind playing bad guys. I want to play a bad guy. I want to rob a bank. I want to rob a bank in a film. I want to rob a bank in a film but do it with a gun - with a gun, not with a bomb strapped around me.
Maz Jobrani
MindMeGunBadWrongPlay
Since my first encounter with Kafka's writing, I've been interested in a quality that, while he was alive, stood in the way of his achieving a large reputation: his allegory.
John Kessel
QualityWritingReputationAchieving
Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
Johnny Ball
LifeWorkAgeGreatWorthYou
The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.
John T. Flynn
GovernmentFreePresentResultDrift
You can have the best technology, but if you have an inside job of a worker that has access to the plane that's corrupted or bribed or radicalized, they can get a bomb on that aircraft and blow it up.
Michael McCaul
TechnologyBestJobYouInsideUp
I didn't play any extreme sports growing up. I never surfed, and I grew up in Santa Cruz. I was very good at doing what I was told, taking direction, and staying middle of the road. I mean, they called me 'grandma' in college.
Julia Hartz
GoodSportsCollegeGrowing UpRoad
When I fight someone who's not a good person, I want to beat him.
Jon Jones
GoodFightSomeoneGood PersonWant
I would never be in a film just for the sake of being in a film, so I am waiting for the right role to come along.
Condola Rashad
I AmWaitingNeverRightFilmRole
I like to challenge the audience. I want people to feel discomfort.
Brett Gelman
ChallengePeopleFeelWantAudience
I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.
Bobby Lee
SadI AmPeopleMeCrazyThink
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