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Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.

When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.

I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.

It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.

I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.

I've got a serious-looking head.

There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

I'm an independent, but I got to admit I lean Democratic.

God doesn't go to jail for the pound of weed you got caught going over the Laredo with - even though he apparently has the knowledge, power, and care to prevent it - you go to jail. God passes go and the courts collect two hundred dollars.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

I went to one AA meeting and I got asked for an autograph.

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.