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I wouldn't miss the fame. I don't go out hunting for it. I try to avoid it and to slip into the background wherever I go.
Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.
I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it.
It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine!
If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.
You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.
I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
You avoid the hype while you're working, you have to, but the premiere is the one night of the year where you can enjoy it.
I try and avoid the big comics in Edinburgh. You can see them on tour. Edinburgh is all about seeing the smaller comedians.
If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.
Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.
Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.
Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'
I think everybody should have the attitude that you can't allow yourself to be hurt. You avoid a lot just with that attitude.
We don't take ourselves very seriously and view working at Barstool Sports as a way to avoid becoming slaves to cubicle life.
Every married man who wants peace in the relationship, should learn the trick to avoid that one question - 'How is the food?'
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.
Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion.
The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.
You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Choosing to avoid uncomfortable feelings offers immediate short-term relief, but avoidance can lead to long-term consequences.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death.
I love being a grandparent. I'm one of those you want to avoid - I pull out the iPhone and say, 'Hey, wanna see my camera roll?'
Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.
Do not enter into an agreement you cannot afford. Take precautions to avoid institutional loans with double-digit interest rates.
In my professional life I do not have to like everyone, but when I feel negative energy with someone I try and avoid that person.
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.
Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.
There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys.
You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.
I like America. I think it's pretty cool. I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.
Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible.
To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.