topic_x_quote.id,topic.id,topic.ts,topic.topic,quote.id,quote.ts,quote.quote,author.id,author.ts,author.author,author.profession,author.nationality,author.born,author.die
1,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43","Everything I do is me. I don't like taking ideas from people unless they're the G.O.A.T.",1,"2021-02-22 10:08:08","A Boogie wit da Hoodie",Musician,American,"December 6, 1995",
14,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,5,"2021-02-22 11:31:43","My mom is proud of me. My pops proud of me. Everybody keeps motivating me.",1,"2021-02-22 10:08:08","A Boogie wit da Hoodie",Musician,American,"December 6, 1995",
34,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,12,"2021-02-22 11:31:43","I'm not really worried about the flashy stuff. I don't got chains and cars. I spend what I need to spend. It doesn't faze me.",1,"2021-02-22 10:08:08","A Boogie wit da Hoodie",Musician,American,"December 6, 1995",
51,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,17,"2021-02-22 11:31:43","One day, walking through the Bronx streets, I just realized that people were stopping me, taking pictures, and noticing me from across the street. I can't even use public transportation anymore, so I kind of stopped going places and started going straight to the studio, going home, and telling people I can't go anywhere anymore.",1,"2021-02-22 10:08:08","A Boogie wit da Hoodie",Musician,American,"December 6, 1995",
67,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,23,"2021-02-22 11:31:43","If you listen to me, it's real stories. It's catchy and something you can relate to.",1,"2021-02-22 10:08:08","A Boogie wit da Hoodie",Musician,American,"December 6, 1995",
73,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,25,"2021-02-22 11:31:43","I used to record songs, like, play the beat from one phone and have another phone recording me and just rap. Moving from that to a studio was like, 'Damn, I never knew I could sound like this.' It was just magic.",1,"2021-02-22 10:08:08","A Boogie wit da Hoodie",Musician,American,"December 6, 1995",
79,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,27,"2021-02-22 11:31:43","2017 was crazy when I made the 'Freshman' cover 'cause I looked up to it, and I really wanted to be in it. It was motivation for me after that: I kept on going, and I grinded.",1,"2021-02-22 10:08:08","A Boogie wit da Hoodie",Musician,American,"December 6, 1995",
90,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,30,"2021-02-22 11:31:43","Having a daughter made my music, I guess, more meaningful. It made me see more of life when I had my daughter.",1,"2021-02-22 10:08:08","A Boogie wit da Hoodie",Musician,American,"December 6, 1995",
102,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,34,"2021-02-22 11:31:43","Me and Thugger could make nine songs in a day and then choose which songs we like the most and think is gonna do something. With other people, it's like, we pick one song, and we hope it's the one.",1,"2021-02-22 10:08:08","A Boogie wit da Hoodie",Musician,American,"December 6, 1995",
128,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,43,"2021-02-22 11:31:43","Growing up in Highbridge was real. Me and all my friends, we never really went to any other places in the Bronx but Highbridge. We always just stayed in Highbridge. It was like territory, to be honest, because Highbridge is like a town.",1,"2021-02-22 10:08:08","A Boogie wit da Hoodie",Musician,American,"December 6, 1995",
132,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,44,"2021-02-22 11:31:43","You always gonna feel me. That's my main thing. When I'm speaking in my music, you gotta feel me.",1,"2021-02-22 10:08:08","A Boogie wit da Hoodie",Musician,American,"December 6, 1995",
146,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,49,"2021-02-22 11:31:43","Everybody was always telling me to rap and freestyle. I used to go to the park and spit on the mic. If I go to the park, they always gonna give me the mic.",1,"2021-02-22 10:08:08","A Boogie wit da Hoodie",Musician,American,"December 6, 1995",
173,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,58,"2021-02-22 11:31:43","The album 'Hoodie SZN' is about the result of where I come from: it gave me this black heart. And the black heart represents depression.",1,"2021-02-22 10:08:08","A Boogie wit da Hoodie",Musician,American,"December 6, 1995",
180,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,60,"2021-02-22 11:31:43","I was inspired to shoot 'Look Back at It' in a high school because I'm like a voice of the youth. When the youth sees me in a classroom, I want them to be inspired to accomplish their dreams. I was just like them in a classroom at one point. It all starts in a classroom.",1,"2021-02-22 10:08:08","A Boogie wit da Hoodie",Musician,American,"December 6, 1995",
198,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,66,"2021-02-22 11:31:46","One of the key things for me about Madame Walker's life is that she really does represent this first generation out of slavery when black people were reinventing themselves, and as a woman who was the first child in her family born free, she was trying to figure out a way, and she moved from Delta, Louisiana.",2,"2021-02-22 10:13:08","A'Lelia Bundles",Journalist,American,"June 7, 1952",
219,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,73,"2021-02-22 11:31:46","Why is she Mrs. C.J. Walker? It really was a matter of her trying to insist that people respect her, because during that time, white people would call any black woman 'Sally.' 'Aunt Sally.' So this was like... you can't call me that.",2,"2021-02-22 10:13:08","A'Lelia Bundles",Journalist,American,"June 7, 1952",
296,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,99,"2021-02-22 11:31:46","Many people have told me that once they learn of Madam Walker's accomplishments they are surprised, even embarrassed, that they have never heard of her. But they shouldn't be. Her extraordinary story was simply omitted from the history books.",2,"2021-02-22 10:13:08","A'Lelia Bundles",Journalist,American,"June 7, 1952",
374,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,125,"2021-02-22 11:32:14","People collect boredom, they hoard it, they wallow in it, hoping that one day it'll be of interest and become an effete ennui. Let me tell you, it doesn't.",3,"2021-02-22 11:32:14","A. A. Gill",Writer,British,"June 28, 1954","December 10, 2016"
509,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,170,"2021-02-22 11:32:14","Writing, for me, is the great organiser. It's while writing that I think most deeply about things.",3,"2021-02-22 11:32:14","A. A. Gill",Writer,British,"June 28, 1954","December 10, 2016"
586,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,196,"2021-02-22 11:32:16","Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.",4,"2021-02-22 11:32:16","A. A. Milne",Author,English,"January 18, 1882","January 31, 1956"
777,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,260,"2021-02-22 11:32:43","For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.",7,"2021-02-22 11:32:43","A. Bartlett Giamatti",Educator,American,"April 4, 1938","September 1, 1989"
783,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,262,"2021-02-22 11:32:43","There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.",7,"2021-02-22 11:32:43","A. Bartlett Giamatti",Educator,American,"April 4, 1938","September 1, 1989"
791,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,265,"2021-02-22 11:32:43","I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.",7,"2021-02-22 11:32:43","A. Bartlett Giamatti",Educator,American,"April 4, 1938","September 1, 1989"
924,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,309,"2021-02-22 11:33:04","The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.",10,"2021-02-22 11:33:04","A. E. Housman",Poet,English,"March 26, 1859","April 30, 1936"
943,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,316,"2021-02-22 11:33:13","It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.",11,"2021-02-22 11:33:13","A. E. van Vogt",Author,Canadian,"April 26, 1912","January 26, 2000"
996,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,333,"2021-02-22 11:33:55","As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies.",13,"2021-02-22 10:15:48","A. J. Bowen",Actor,American,"December 21, 1977",
1043,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,349,"2021-02-22 11:34:31","For me, if something fits properly, it makes me feel good.",15,"2021-02-22 10:16:25","A. J. Cook",Actress,Canadian,"July 22, 1978",
1064,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,356,"2021-02-22 11:34:43","Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.",19529,"2021-02-22 10:13:24","Leonard Maltin",Critic,American,"December 18, 1950",
1174,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,393,"2021-02-22 11:34:58","Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.",19530,"2021-02-22 10:13:39","Leonard Mlodinow",Physicist,American,,
1365,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,457,"2021-02-22 11:35:13","What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.",19532,"2021-02-22 11:35:13","Leonard Nimoy",Actor,American,"March 26, 1931","February 27, 2015"
1432,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,479,"2021-02-22 11:35:13","For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.",19532,"2021-02-22 11:35:13","Leonard Nimoy",Actor,American,"March 26, 1931","February 27, 2015"
1438,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,481,"2021-02-22 11:35:13","A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.",19532,"2021-02-22 11:35:13","Leonard Nimoy",Actor,American,"March 26, 1931","February 27, 2015"
1444,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,483,"2021-02-22 11:35:13","For a period of time, I carried cameras with me wherever I went, and then I realized that my interest in photography was turning toward the conceptual. So I wasn't carrying around cameras shooting stuff, I was developing concepts about what I wanted to shoot. And then I'd get the camera angle and do the job.",19532,"2021-02-22 11:35:13","Leonard Nimoy",Actor,American,"March 26, 1931","February 27, 2015"
1453,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,486,"2021-02-22 11:35:13","I use a computer. I don't know if that qualifies me as a techie, but I'm pretty good on the computer.",19532,"2021-02-22 11:35:13","Leonard Nimoy",Actor,American,"March 26, 1931","February 27, 2015"
1457,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,487,"2021-02-22 11:35:13","I think about myself as like an ocean liner that's been going full speed for a long distance, and the captain pulls the throttle back all the way to 'stop,' but the ship doesn't stop immediately, does it? It has its own momentum and it keeps on going, and I'm very flattered that people are still finding me useful.",19532,"2021-02-22 11:35:13","Leonard Nimoy",Actor,American,"March 26, 1931","February 27, 2015"
1460,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,488,"2021-02-22 11:35:13","I have a master's degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don't carry cameras with me wherever I go. I get an idea of a subject matter I want to deal with and I pull out my cameras.",19532,"2021-02-22 11:35:13","Leonard Nimoy",Actor,American,"March 26, 1931","February 27, 2015"
1507,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,504,"2021-02-22 11:35:30","I have this problem in the rebirthing community because it's so powerful sometimes, I get thrown out because people want to do things a certain way and they are just not open to new ideas, so they don't want me to come around.",19533,"2021-02-22 10:14:15","Leonard Orr",Celebrity,American,,
1591,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,532,"2021-02-22 11:35:52","But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.",20,"2021-02-22 10:17:48","A. J. McLean",Musician,American,"January 9, 1978",
1625,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,544,"2021-02-22 11:35:52","The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.",20,"2021-02-22 10:17:48","A. J. McLean",Musician,American,"January 9, 1978",
1646,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,551,"2021-02-22 11:35:52","I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.",20,"2021-02-22 10:17:48","A. J. McLean",Musician,American,"January 9, 1978",
1697,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,568,"2021-02-22 11:36:20","Surgeons are not technicians; they're not mechanics. They're artists. I see patterns where not many other people see patterns. ...I think that's what made me a good surgeon, and now, that's what's making me a good writer.",19536,"2021-02-22 11:36:20","Leonard Shlain",Inventor,American,"August 28, 1937","May 11, 2009"
1816,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,608,"2021-02-22 11:36:35","I get to perform in front of millions of people on Saturday nights, I get to choreograph and dance and nothing can bring me down.",23,"2021-02-22 10:18:27","A. J. Pritchard",Dancer,British,"November 5, 1994",
1834,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,614,"2021-02-22 11:36:35","For me, exercise is a form of meditation and I find it very calming.",23,"2021-02-22 10:18:27","A. J. Pritchard",Dancer,British,"November 5, 1994",
1840,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,616,"2021-02-22 11:36:35","I'm ready to conquer anything thrown at me.",23,"2021-02-22 10:18:27","A. J. Pritchard",Dancer,British,"November 5, 1994",
1856,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,622,"2021-02-22 11:36:35","I never try to look for love but sometimes it finds me.",23,"2021-02-22 10:18:27","A. J. Pritchard",Dancer,British,"November 5, 1994",
1868,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,626,"2021-02-22 11:36:35","If someone comes up to me and asks me for a photo, if they do it politely, I'm always going to say yes.",23,"2021-02-22 10:18:27","A. J. Pritchard",Dancer,British,"November 5, 1994",
1889,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,633,"2021-02-22 11:36:35","It doesn't bother me or Curtis being questioned about our sexuality and it probably happens more because we're dancers. That stereotype is disappearing, but people always made ignorant, short-sighted comments when we were growing up.",23,"2021-02-22 10:18:27","A. J. Pritchard",Dancer,British,"November 5, 1994",
1892,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,634,"2021-02-22 11:36:35","Who wouldn't fall in love with me?",23,"2021-02-22 10:18:27","A. J. Pritchard",Dancer,British,"November 5, 1994",
2088,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,700,"2021-02-22 11:37:02","At 5 years old, I saw 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and I was so scared when Costello sat himself down in the lap of the monster, not realizing where he was. My friends teased me. They were older, 8 years old. And my goal was to become a mad scientist and get back at them. And here I am, mad as hell!",19538,"2021-02-22 10:15:24","Leonard Susskind",Physicist,American,"January 1, 1940",
2095,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,702,"2021-02-22 11:37:02","Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.",19538,"2021-02-22 10:15:24","Leonard Susskind",Physicist,American,"January 1, 1940",
2102,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,704,"2021-02-22 11:37:02","I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me. There, I realized I wanted to be a physicist. I had to tell him, which was a somewhat traumatic experience.",19538,"2021-02-22 10:15:24","Leonard Susskind",Physicist,American,"January 1, 1940",
2104,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,705,"2021-02-22 11:37:02","I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain things to - it is part of the way I think. For me, teaching and explaining, even to my imaginary audience, is part of the process.",19538,"2021-02-22 10:15:24","Leonard Susskind",Physicist,American,"January 1, 1940",
2134,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,715,"2021-02-22 11:37:02","Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.",19538,"2021-02-22 10:15:24","Leonard Susskind",Physicist,American,"January 1, 1940",
2202,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,738,"2021-02-22 11:37:21","I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.",26,"2021-02-22 10:19:32","A. N. Wilson",Writer,English,"October 27, 1950",
2213,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,741,"2021-02-22 11:37:21","On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.",26,"2021-02-22 10:19:32","A. N. Wilson",Writer,English,"October 27, 1950",
2225,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,745,"2021-02-22 11:37:21","Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.",26,"2021-02-22 10:19:32","A. N. Wilson",Writer,English,"October 27, 1950",
2227,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,746,"2021-02-22 11:37:21","It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.",26,"2021-02-22 10:19:32","A. N. Wilson",Writer,English,"October 27, 1950",
2252,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,754,"2021-02-22 11:37:21","Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.",26,"2021-02-22 10:19:32","A. N. Wilson",Writer,English,"October 27, 1950",
2261,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,757,"2021-02-22 11:37:21","My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.",26,"2021-02-22 10:19:32","A. N. Wilson",Writer,English,"October 27, 1950",
2279,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,763,"2021-02-22 11:37:21","When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.",26,"2021-02-22 10:19:32","A. N. Wilson",Writer,English,"October 27, 1950",
2365,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,792,"2021-02-22 11:37:29","Defence for me is so important because I do not want anyone to trespass and invade my property because that goal is my property.",19541,"2021-02-22 10:15:55","Leonardo Bonucci",Athlete,Italian,"May 1, 1987",
2395,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,802,"2021-02-22 11:37:29","As a lad I missed five months of sporting activity to OSD. It used to wake me up at night with pain in my knees.",19541,"2021-02-22 10:15:55","Leonardo Bonucci",Athlete,Italian,"May 1, 1987",
2402,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,804,"2021-02-22 11:37:29","What Conte gave me was hunger, the desire to never give in, the mentality that allows you to go beyond pain to reach your objectives.",19541,"2021-02-22 10:15:55","Leonardo Bonucci",Athlete,Italian,"May 1, 1987",
2407,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,806,"2021-02-22 11:37:29","Those months at Milan let me do some soul-searching and made me realise that my calling was at Juventus, who are like my family.",19541,"2021-02-22 10:15:55","Leonardo Bonucci",Athlete,Italian,"May 1, 1987",
2413,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,808,"2021-02-22 11:37:29","What I discovered is that there has always been a soldier inside me; I just didn't know it.",19541,"2021-02-22 10:15:55","Leonardo Bonucci",Athlete,Italian,"May 1, 1987",
2426,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,813,"2021-02-22 11:37:29","To those who call me a mercenary I say that I also had interest from abroad, where I would have earned more. I have chosen Milan because, in my head, there is the idea of repeating the course I had at Juventus, where we had started rebuilding, as in this case, and we came to the top.",19541,"2021-02-22 10:15:55","Leonardo Bonucci",Athlete,Italian,"May 1, 1987",
2433,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,815,"2021-02-22 11:37:29","Juventus have been everything to me over the years. I grew up a lot here and the club always supported me.",19541,"2021-02-22 10:15:55","Leonardo Bonucci",Athlete,Italian,"May 1, 1987",
2439,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,817,"2021-02-22 11:37:29","I understand the fans, I respect them. I'll accept the whistling and booing. It's up to me to transform that all into applause.",19541,"2021-02-22 10:15:55","Leonardo Bonucci",Athlete,Italian,"May 1, 1987",
2441,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,818,"2021-02-22 11:37:29","Real Madrid's interest? Yes, it's true, Real Madrid were interested in me. It was an honour and pleasure for me, it means that I have worked well in these years.",19541,"2021-02-22 10:15:55","Leonardo Bonucci",Athlete,Italian,"May 1, 1987",
2484,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,833,"2021-02-22 11:37:29","These technical flicks and tricks come naturally to me and I don't really think about them. I did a backheel against Udinese and the coach would've strangled me if he could have!",19541,"2021-02-22 10:15:55","Leonardo Bonucci",Athlete,Italian,"May 1, 1987",
2636,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,883,"2021-02-22 11:37:46","As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.",28,"2021-02-22 11:37:46","A. P. J. Abdul Kalam",Statesman,Indian,"October 15, 1931","July 27, 2015"
2706,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,907,"2021-02-22 11:37:46","For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.",28,"2021-02-22 11:37:46","A. P. J. Abdul Kalam",Statesman,Indian,"October 15, 1931","July 27, 2015"
2977,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,997,"2021-02-22 11:38:10","I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.",19544,"2021-02-22 10:16:29","Leonardo DiCaprio",Actor,American,"November 11, 1974 See also:",
2987,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1001,"2021-02-22 11:38:10","Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo.",19544,"2021-02-22 10:16:29","Leonardo DiCaprio",Actor,American,"November 11, 1974 See also:",
3014,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1010,"2021-02-22 11:38:10","My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.",19544,"2021-02-22 10:16:29","Leonardo DiCaprio",Actor,American,"November 11, 1974 See also:",
3018,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1011,"2021-02-22 11:38:10","Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.",19544,"2021-02-22 10:16:29","Leonardo DiCaprio",Actor,American,"November 11, 1974 See also:",
3066,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1027,"2021-02-22 11:38:10","Considering all that's happened in my life, I feel like I'm a pretty levelheaded person that has remained happy and not let my shortcomings overtake the better part of me. I'm fulfilling the things I wanted to fulfill, and I'm still sane.",19544,"2021-02-22 10:16:29","Leonardo DiCaprio",Actor,American,"November 11, 1974 See also:",
3095,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1037,"2021-02-22 11:38:10","I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.",19544,"2021-02-22 10:16:29","Leonardo DiCaprio",Actor,American,"November 11, 1974 See also:",
3112,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1042,"2021-02-22 11:38:10","With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet.",19544,"2021-02-22 10:16:29","Leonardo DiCaprio",Actor,American,"November 11, 1974 See also:",
3302,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1106,"2021-02-22 11:38:56","One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. 'Away with you', I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.",19547,"2021-02-22 11:38:56","Leonid I. Brezhnev",Statesman,Russian,"December 19, 1906","November 10, 1982"
3351,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1122,"2021-02-22 11:39:03","Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.",32,"2021-02-22 10:21:01","A. R. Rahman",Musician,Indian,"January 6, 1967",
3362,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1126,"2021-02-22 11:39:03","I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him, and I did so for over a year. I did think of rejoining college, but by then, I was discovering the musician in me. I worked with Illaya Raja and Raj Koti and soon shifted to commercials. This led to movie offers.",32,"2021-02-22 10:21:01","A. R. Rahman",Musician,Indian,"January 6, 1967",
3403,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1140,"2021-02-22 11:39:03","While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.",32,"2021-02-22 10:21:01","A. R. Rahman",Musician,Indian,"January 6, 1967",
3417,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1144,"2021-02-22 11:39:03","I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.",32,"2021-02-22 10:21:01","A. R. Rahman",Musician,Indian,"January 6, 1967",
3425,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1147,"2021-02-22 11:39:03","If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.",32,"2021-02-22 10:21:01","A. R. Rahman",Musician,Indian,"January 6, 1967",
3459,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1158,"2021-02-22 11:39:03","My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody limits me to one genre of music. But I learn from life and I try to give back to life, in a way, whether it's the thought of the song or whether it's the approach to the arrangement or anything.",32,"2021-02-22 10:21:01","A. R. Rahman",Musician,Indian,"January 6, 1967",
3483,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1166,"2021-02-22 11:39:12","What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes. But for me as a mother, the moral implications are very clear. We owe them clean air and fresh water, a healthy planet and a secure future.",19548,"2021-02-22 10:17:30","Leonor Varela",Actress,Chilean,"December 29, 1972",
3511,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1176,"2021-02-22 11:39:19","I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.",33,"2021-02-22 10:21:23","A. S. Byatt",Novelist,English,"August 24, 1936",
3545,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1187,"2021-02-22 11:39:19","There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.",33,"2021-02-22 10:21:23","A. S. Byatt",Novelist,English,"August 24, 1936",
3565,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1194,"2021-02-22 11:39:19","I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.",33,"2021-02-22 10:21:23","A. S. Byatt",Novelist,English,"August 24, 1936",
3657,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1224,"2021-02-22 11:39:19","I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.",33,"2021-02-22 10:21:23","A. S. Byatt",Novelist,English,"August 24, 1936",
3672,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1229,"2021-02-22 11:39:19","It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.",33,"2021-02-22 10:21:23","A. S. Byatt",Novelist,English,"August 24, 1936",
3715,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1244,"2021-02-22 11:39:20","What would anyone want to write about me for? I'm just an old lady.",19549,"2021-02-22 11:39:20","Leonora Carrington",Artist,British,"April 6, 1917","May 25, 2011"
3741,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1252,"2021-02-22 11:39:24","I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.",34,"2021-02-22 10:21:27","A. Scott Berg",Historian,American,"December 4, 1949",
3781,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1266,"2021-02-22 11:39:38","I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.",35,"2021-02-22 10:21:50","A. Whitney Brown",Comedian,American,"July 8, 1952",
3807,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1275,"2021-02-22 11:39:52","Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.",36,"2021-02-22 10:21:56","A.J. Styles",Wrestler,American,"June 2, 1977",
3823,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1280,"2021-02-22 11:39:52","Everything I do, I want to be A.J. Styles. When you see a guy come out with dry, long hair, I want you to be like, 'Hey, that reminds me of A.J. Styles.' That's what I want.",36,"2021-02-22 10:21:56","A.J. Styles",Wrestler,American,"June 2, 1977",
3845,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1287,"2021-02-22 11:39:52","I always say when it comes to dream matches, that is not up to me: that's up to the WWE Universe. That's up to the fans. But there is a guy on 'SmackDown' that I have yet to wrestle yet that's certainly gonna happen at some point, and that's Randy Orton.",36,"2021-02-22 10:21:56","A.J. Styles",Wrestler,American,"June 2, 1977",
3851,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1289,"2021-02-22 11:39:52","I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.",36,"2021-02-22 10:21:56","A.J. Styles",Wrestler,American,"June 2, 1977",
3967,1,"2021-02-22 11:31:43",Me,1328,"2021-02-22 11:40:34","I don't work with people who ask me questions.",19555,"2021-02-22 10:18:52","Leos Carax",Director,French,"November 22, 1960",