All Quotes

I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I think it's badly written.
‐‐ Richard Prince

I don't collect the way other people do. Some people collect rare guitars, like, 'I have a '54 Strat worth $50,000.' And I don't collect the way Nash does. Nash has Duane Allman's guitar and Johnny Cash's guitar. I bought guitars because they sounded good. I played them, they sounded unbelievably good, and I couldn't resist.
‐‐ David Crosby

I don't colour my hair, and I look like the back end of a bus, so I get asked to play old people.
‐‐ Gemma Jones

I don't combine proteins and carbohydrates.
‐‐ Ruby Wax

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.
‐‐ Jimmy Wales

I don't come from a comedy background or a stand-up background, but I think that sometimes there's a misconception that an actor who works primarily in comedy is a comedian. There's nothing wrong with being a comedian, but I'm absolutely not that. I can't think of anything more terrifying than doing stand-up!
‐‐ Darren Boyd

I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.
‐‐ Rachel Zoe

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.
‐‐ Ed Westwick

I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra

I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.
‐‐ Jon Huertas

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.
‐‐ Jason Robert Brown

I don't come from a privileged background.
‐‐ Bernadine Dohrn

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.
‐‐ Jessica Lynch

I don't come from an artistic family, so I didn't know what theater was. I was working on Wall Street in the '90s, and I went to see 'Appointment With a High-Wire Lady' at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and it affected me so deeply. It changed everything I thought about the arts. I quit banking and became an actor.
‐‐ Geneva Carr

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy

I don't come from any great culinary tradition - I'm from London!
‐‐ Arthur Potts Dawson

I don't come from Lake Wobegon, and that world is not mine. It's not that funny to me. It's funny to other people, and I'm not judging it, but the world that I come from is not considered funny by other people as well. There's so much pain in it.
‐‐ James McBride

I don't come from money.
‐‐ Christina Ricci

I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.
‐‐ Cat Power

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.
‐‐ Jacqueline Bisset

I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.
‐‐ Venus Williams

I don't comment on other people's opinion.
‐‐ Luke Evans

I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!
‐‐ Cameron Mackintosh

I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

I don't compare myself with Freida Pinto. She has come a long way. She does only films in the West. I am open to do both - Indian films and films from the West.
‐‐ Tena Desae

I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any secret to my longevity, it's living in the future. And a little bit in the present.
‐‐ Harold Prince

I don't compete with actresses; I only compete with heroes.
‐‐ Sonam Kapoor

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.
‐‐ Al Oerter

I don't complain.
‐‐ Sofia Vergara

I don't complain when it's sunny.
‐‐ Tim Howard

I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
‐‐ Yann Tiersen

I don't compromise my principles for politics.
‐‐ Chris Christie

I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.
‐‐ Michael Moore

I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances.
‐‐ Hampton Sides

I don't concentrate on technical things like where a microphone is placed and things like that. As a producer, I try to keep the initial feeling from when I first heard a song and make sure we do what were initially aiming for.
‐‐ Guy Berryman

I don't concern myself too much about calories and fat.
‐‐ Hannah Marks

I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.
‐‐ Denzel Washington

I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You're the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision.
‐‐ Cicely Tyson

I don't condone anyone causing damage in my name, or doing anything malicious in support of my plight. There are more productive ways to help me. As a hacker myself, I never intentionally damaged anything.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick

I don't conduct my career for when I'm dead and people say nice things about me. I conduct my career for the here and now, and what excites me, and what interests me.
‐‐ Joe Carnahan

I don't conduct myself like a rock 'n' roll star in my day-to-day living. Am I a celebrity? Yes. Do people recognize me on the street? Yes, they do. But at the same time, it's not a media center out here. People get used to you.
‐‐ Dee Snider

I don't confess in my work because to me, that implies that you're dumping all your guilt and sins on the page and asking the reader to forgive you.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.
‐‐ Paloma Faith

I don't conquer, I submit.
‐‐ Giacomo Casanova

I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice.
‐‐ Thomas Perry

I don't consciously go out looking for themes. They attach themselves to me.
‐‐ Gillian Armstrong