I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.
‐‐ Norman Granz
I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.
‐‐ Cameron Mathison
I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
‐‐ Garry Trudeau
I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?
‐‐ Martin Lawrence
I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, 'Chill out' to me when I'm irritated!
‐‐ Martin Freeman
I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!
‐‐ Faith Hill
I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.
‐‐ Billy Collins
I don't want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it's quite nice when you get up early and then, by the time it gets to 10am, you're quite perky and already quite switched on.
‐‐ Sophie Ellis-Bextor
I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.
‐‐ Paul O'Grady
I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.
‐‐ Michael Caine
I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.
‐‐ French Montana
I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.
‐‐ Bob Newhart
I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.
‐‐ Barry McGuigan
I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.
‐‐ John Lone
I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
‐‐ Rainn Wilson
I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then everything's perfect and everybody's happy.
‐‐ Scott Caan
I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine.
‐‐ Colin Firth
I don't want to sound too bleeding heart, because I know how lucky I've been, but I never knew how hard it was to be the lead in a television show.
‐‐ Jessica Raine
I don't want to sound too critical, but we're taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet.
‐‐ Bob Iger
I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.
‐‐ Rabindranath Maharaj
I don't want to sound too silly or pretentious about this, but, you know, I love being in Paris. I love working at Louis Vuitton. I love fashion. That's why I do it. No one's forcing me to do this. And nobody forces anyone to buy it. It's a real love affair.
‐‐ Marc Jacobs
I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
‐‐ Adam McKay
I don't want to spend a month and a half in a studio with music I don't like, and fortunately I don't have to.
‐‐ Mark Hoppus
I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.
‐‐ Serj Tankian
I don't want to spend money the club doesn't have; I don't want to hold a player that doesn't want to stay.
‐‐ Jurgen Klopp
I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.
‐‐ Steven Hill
I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!
‐‐ Laura Linney
I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.
‐‐ Paula Deen
I don't want to spend my life on an ice cube.
‐‐ Johnny Weir
I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
‐‐ Colin Powell
I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura
I don't want to spend too much time dwelling on what I've already done because there is still so much to do.
‐‐ Sophia Amoruso
I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
‐‐ Kate Atkinson
I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I'm really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don't have to like it. I'm not looking for you to like it; I'm looking to be myself.
‐‐ Damien Rice
I don't want to start producing dressing gowns and cuff links with the Purdey name stamped on them. Making Purdey the leading gunmaker is our priority. Once we have succeeded in doing that, then we might look at some accessories, but it is a long haul.
‐‐ Johann Rupert
I don't want to stay a singer forever. I want to fulfill my dream career as a lawyer!
‐‐ Charice Pempengco
I don't want to stay on the road for the rest of my life. I have two kids.
‐‐ Scott Weiland
I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.
‐‐ Buzz Osborne
I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.
‐‐ David Levithan
I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.
‐‐ Kevin Bacon
I don't want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn't.
‐‐ John Kitzhaber
I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.
‐‐ John Burnside
I don't want to take a company public and not have it do extremely well and fail the public shareholder.
‐‐ Romesh Wadhwani
I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.
‐‐ Mandy Moore
I don't want to take the escalators. Give me the stairs that have the dips and the two old ladies that are blocking it and they've got an attitude, and they don't want you to go past them.
‐‐ RJ Cyler
I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.
‐‐ Christina Aguilera
I don't want to talk about myself, that's for other people to say, so I'm not saying I was so talented.
‐‐ Jon Lovitz
I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
‐‐ Sammy Hagar
I don't want to talk about Nicki Minaj anymore.
‐‐ Azealia Banks
I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.
‐‐ Jonny Lee Miller
I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
‐‐ F. Murray Abraham
I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.
‐‐ Vikram Seth
I don't want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that's what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.
‐‐ Simon Cowell
I don't want to tell Gov. Brewer what to do; she can do what's best for her state.
‐‐ Rick Scott
I don't want to tell people how to remember me. I want people to remember me as they remember me.
‐‐ John Trudell
I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it.
‐‐ Joan Chen
I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter
I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.
‐‐ Jack Benny
I don't want to tell you what to buy. I just want to help you think about why you're buying it.
‐‐ Alexa Von Tobel
I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.
‐‐ Joel Schumacher
I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.
‐‐ Dean Kamen
I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.
‐‐ Jessica Ennis
I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't want to intrude on anybody's life, which is why there's very little specificity or names in the songs I write.
‐‐ J. D. Souther
I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.
‐‐ Steven Moffat
I don't want to think too much about me.
‐‐ Andrea Arnold
I don't want to tie myself into one area or the other. I think its important not to rely heavily on either TV or stand-up, but to let them work off of each other.
‐‐ Nina Conti
I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.
‐‐ Mitt Romney
I don't want to treat my fans like they are stupid.
‐‐ Kesha
I don't want to treat my little girl like she's made out of glass or wrap her in bubble wrap or anything! And I also don't want to be constantly correcting her or warning her. Or my least favorite, reprimanding her.
‐‐ Constance Marie