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If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.
Dave Chappelle

Yourself, Moving, Lose

I got a lot of positive people around me.
Dave Chappelle

The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
Dave Chappelle

Mind, Themselves, Position

Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.
Dave Chappelle

Great, Everyone, Genius

We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention.
Alexander Volkov

Great, Someone, Find

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.
Lisa Marie Presley

Good, Father, Everyone

I believe our foreign assistance should be scrutinized, should be debated, and that we should strike the right balance, but in all cases the foreign assistance that we provide around the world should be used to further our national security interests.
John Sununu

Used, Balance, Security

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

True, Book, Find

I don't change. The things around me change.
Jeremy Renner

Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it.
Mark Ruffalo

Heart, Keep, Lose

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
John Berger

Past, Dying, Grows

I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.
Rob Sheffield

Life, Music, Whole

Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I've been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I'm just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me.
Angie Stone

Life, Dating, Happy

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
Rahm Emanuel

Politics, Failure, Mind

The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
George Soros

Less, Situation, Takes

I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.
Adam Carolla

Time, Freedom, Mess

I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
Adam Carolla

Art, Reality, Comedy

I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
Adam Carolla

Work, Mean, Pretty

I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
Al Yankovic

Life, Trying, Find

I want someone honest, someone who's very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me.
Selena Gomez

Family, Someone, Friends

I like protective men, the type who'll put an arm around me so I can be smothered.
Katie Price

In some ways any film that you do has an artificiality about it. Even when you're doing the most kitchen-sinky, gritty, realistic scene you've still got 50 people standing around watching you with cameras and lights and things.
Michael Sheen

Film, Ways, Realistic

You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.'
Michael Sheen

Hero, Story, Perceive

When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?
Anna Kendrick

Else, Show, Anyone

I'm big into fishing, but I've never been much of a hunter. I never was really raised around it a whole lot, so I never got a chance to do it a whole lot.
Joe Nichols

Big, Whole, Chance

I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.
Marlee Matlin

Work, Since, Won

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
Albert Brooks

Big, Stories, Walking

Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Experience, Career, Games

A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.
George A. Romero

Fun, Stupid, Film

It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.
Naveen Jain

Good, Simple, Everyone

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