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When you first start out in stand-up and, probably, as any performer, you enjoy the attention so much, and even though that hasn't died down on stage, it certainly has satiated whatever was in me that was needing that much attention. When I'm off stage, it's not something that I really need.

Tig Notaro

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I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

Matt Kemp

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We like to entertain, but it is not our duty to do so. I have had a lot of exciting fights and been hit way too much, so that is something to think about.

Amir Khan

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That's the really fun thing about writing for series versus just doing a pilot or even doing a feature: you get to live with your actors, and as you learn their voices and they learn your dialog, you're kind of building the characters together.

Stephanie Savage

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Robert Frost

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I've always been a big guy - I was much larger and stronger than my peers when I was 13 years old.

Ronnie Coleman

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I'm not going to another club to hurt Liverpool.

Luis Suarez

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As a comedian, I think you need to keep things real.

Judah Friedlander

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And the trajectory that our debt is taking now beyond $14 trillion is going to have an impact on our currency. It goes south, and our currency's going to have an impact on our standard of living and affect every family in this country, and over time, our international competitiveness.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

David Steinberg

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The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

Publilius Syrus

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The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.

Paul Watson

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I have the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for a couple of hours.

Sheena Easton

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