I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies.

No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

I obviously try to avoid racism, because that's one thing that I should not be putting on to the Internet.

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?

Illness, mechanicals, and injuries is not something you can 100% avoid; you can only try to limit the risk.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime.

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

I don't look at my opponent's eyes in the ring. I watch his gloves so that I can block or avoid his punches.

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

I believe firmly in reconciliation among Vietnamese to avoid unnecessary shedding of the blood of Vietnamese.

If you're making films in New Zealand, you can't avoid the landscape. It's certainly more handsome than I am.

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.

There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.

As a general rule, if you are prone to melodramatic meltdowns, please avoid purchasing a webcam for any reason.

I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.

There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.

In my experience, academia is a World War 1 kind of a domain, and I do my best to avoid all that trench warfare.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.

Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

I try to not eat as much sugar, but it's so hard in our American diet to do that... It's hard to completely avoid.

Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

Offal and offcuts such as head and feet can be picked up for next to nothing, and eating them helps to avoid waste.

I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.

The best way to avoid bureaucracy is to have small teams who are empowered to make decisions and get their work done.

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.

I tend to avoid interviews, I don't have a publicist and fear of failure is still very much alive in my personal life.

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