#i do

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. ↗

— Mark Twain

#bother #i #i do #me #parts

I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#four #grandchildren #guess #husband #i

I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#events #filled #i #i believe #i believe in

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do? ↗

— Lynda Barry

#awfulness #bother #gotten #hate #i

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport. ↗

— Todd Barry

#humankind #i #i do #like #love

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person? ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#been #bitter #childlike #could #dark

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#been #best #better #control #dislike

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?' ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#gamble #i #i do #life #myself

All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond. ↗

— Shania Twain

#achieved #beyond #ever #everything #i

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. ↗

— Martha Beck

#between #day #developed #every #every day