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Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.
‐‐ Bernice Johnson Reagon -
Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
‐‐ Polly Toynbee -
Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.
‐‐ Lisa Leslie -
Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar -
Most people cringe at the thought of a casserole.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson -
Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'
‐‐ Herbie Hancock -
Most people depend on a lot of other people.
‐‐ Sophie B. Hawkins -
Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever.
‐‐ Todd Rundgren -
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
‐‐ Erich Fromm -
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde -
Most people divorce because one in the couple falls in love with someone else: it's a common cause of divorce. I still think that it's tinted - this is my opinion - with a veil of racism and American puritanism.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini -
Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill -
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
‐‐ Ellen Goodman -
Most people do not pray; they only beg.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw -
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
‐‐ Sigmund Freud -
Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve the problem rather than finding the truth in what the person is saying.
‐‐ David D. Burns -
Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.
‐‐ Daley Thompson -
Most people don't actually like the press. The friend of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.
‐‐ Susan Estrich -
Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast.
‐‐ Tom Waits -
Most people don't feel empowered to make CAD models. The MakerBot Digitizer solves that problem.
‐‐ Bre Pettis -
Most people don't get a fair crack of the whip.
‐‐ Norman Cook -
Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.
‐‐ Maya Angelou -
Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.
‐‐ Queen Latifah -
Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
‐‐ Carlos Santana -
Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.
‐‐ Sara Paretsky -
Most people don't have the power of persuasion.
‐‐ James Altucher -
Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking -
Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.
‐‐ Caroll Spinney -
Most people don't know how to take compliments. That's the biggest problem in America - we're hesitant to give compliments and embarrassed at getting them.
‐‐ Letitia Baldrige -
Most people don't know how to tell stories.
‐‐ Ted Rall -
Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.
‐‐ Denis Leary -
Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz.
‐‐ Joy Harjo -
Most people don't know that humans kill 100 million sharks every year, mostly for a really expensive soup in Asia.
‐‐ Michael Muller -
Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.
‐‐ John Ritter -
Most people don't know that I have a huge phobia of bugs. It's gotten worse and worse over the years, but I just can't stand them! Even thinking about bugs makes me queasy.
‐‐ Kelli Berglund -
Most people don't know that I'll eat anything spicy. A little extra kick is always a good thing!
‐‐ Kelli Berglund -
Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.
‐‐ Billy Corgan -
Most people don't know what's happening around them because they're just speeding through life. And before they know it, they're just old. So I just try to slow it down.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan -
Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
‐‐ Aaron Patzer -
Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.
‐‐ Susan Estrich -
Most people don't like challenges at work. Actors love challenges at work.
‐‐ Michael Cudlitz -
Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell -
Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.
‐‐ Sarah Vowell -
Most people don't need to work as hard as I do.
‐‐ Eva Gabor -
Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe -
Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't.
‐‐ Rick Warren -
Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.
‐‐ Craig Venter -
Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.
‐‐ Jon Kabat-Zinn -
Most people don't realize turkeys are friendly, they're social, they're loyal, they have emotions.
‐‐ Shannon Elizabeth
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