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I just do not hang around anybody that I don't want to be with. Period. For me, that's been a blessing, and I can stay positive. I hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don't mind saying sorry or thank you... and [are] having a fun time.

I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.

I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my husband and even family events such as birthdays and friends' weddings and things that I've always just missed out on because of softball.

I just love it when people say I can't do it, there's nothing that makes me feel better because all my life, people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime

I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.

I just think that when my confidence meets other people's insecurity, that equals Kanye's arrogant.

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?

I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.

I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.

I just want to be happy. And I find that people that have the least in life are sometimes the happiest. And I don't have the least in life. I have enough in life. And I won't sacrifice my health for that.

I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer and someone who is passionate about the game.

I keep going because if you stop, you stop. Why retire? Inspire.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

... I just want to remind the owners and the players: you guys make money because you have a whole bunch of fans out there who are working really hard. They buy tickets. They're watching on TV. Ya'll should be able to figure this out. Get this done.

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

I just want you to be yourself. Be a bigger yourself.

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.

I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect.

I know a lot of wealthy people in West Los Angeles. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy.

I know enough to know that when you're in a pickle... call Mom.

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

I know for sure that love saves me and that it is here to save us all.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.

I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.

I know If I score we're going to win the match.

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.

I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

I know that if I scare myself once a day, I'm a better person.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.

I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

I know why the caged bird sings.

I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads.

I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

I learned that you should breath it in, breath your life in and enjoy it. Always be optimistic and be nice to people, open to people. Follow your dreams but make sure that you know what your dreams are. If you find something really great, don’t screw it up, don’t mess it up but hang on to it. You never know how and when it ends

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world. --Terri Mitchell

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.