I only scream if screaming is deserved.
One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn’t think I deserved it.
I thought those three years when we won championships, I really was good enough to play in the All-Star game. I felt I deserved to be in the top whatever that would be, the top 20-some players in the league. Really felt that comfortable and confident on the basketball court.
People want me to say that I’m sick of playing Leia and that it ruined my life. If my life was that easy to ruin, it deserved to be ruined.
I always thought the fans deserved the best I can give them.
If ever we deserved a candidate at this moment in our culture, that candidate is Donald Trump.
Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it’s startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba’s mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.
I assumed that, if I put my head down and did great work, what I deserved would come to me. What you deserve will not come to you. It is only in advocating for yourself that you will receive what you deserve.
Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
If I got a beating for something, I usually deserved it.
I think all the people I met at the club at Swansea, they deserved the respect they showed me over the time I was there.
I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that’s unfortunate. It’s not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.
Cristiano deserved to win everything he’s won in his career.
I felt like Cleveland deserved a winner. They have the most loyal fans in the world. I just thought it was a goal of mine. Every time that job came open I tried to get it.
Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.
I insulted people. I had to – they deserved it. They didn’t have any talent. They stunk. They were horrible! But it made it for a fun show.
I haven’t got the credit I deserved sometimes, and some of it’s my fault.
Basically, I chose not to identify with being broke any longer. I realized I deserved a beautiful life, and abundance was something that I needed to welcome into my life.
Some of the technicals I deserved. Cussing at the officials or throwing something. But some of them I didn’t deserve.
I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
’12 Years a Slave’ was very powerful, very moving, and deserved all of the acclaim it did get.
At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work for myself. I felt starting a company would enable me to get the responsibility I deserved and that I couldn’t do that within the confines of a bigger company.
I find awards frivolous. When I began my career, I was told that I deserved an award for a certain performance, but then I couldn’t turn up on the day of the show. Then I was told that the award went to someone else. That’s when I realised the truth behind it all.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
You read glowing things and it doesn’t feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.
Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.
I felt that after 14 years we deserved more than just a day and a half’s notice. There wasn’t even a chance to wind up ‘Bonanza’ in a blaze of glory.
I just didn’t know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me.
If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.
The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.
The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.
I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.
I’ve been fortunate with the kind of work I’ve done, in terms of quality. But a lot of work didn’t get the kind of release and attention that it deserved. And, I feel little let down by our distribution system.
I became a music director because I never saw my father get the success he deserved.
I’ve been through so much damn adversity, I’ve had so much critiqued on me. From being the undefeated world champion to never really getting the love or the respect I feel I deserved when I was on top and then finally getting knocked down and then everybody jumping on top, trying to kick me while I was down.
When I lost to Ray Mercer, I was young. I deserved to lose that fight because I hadn’t learned how to cover all the angles in preparation. I was immature.
Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.
I understand that we’re paid a lot of money and we’re in the limelight. When things don’t go well, there’s deserved criticism.
I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
The mindset ideas were developed as a counter to the self-esteem movement of blanketing everyone with praise, whether deserved or not.
There’s certainly satire written about techies, but it’s so snarky and snide and doesn’t treat him as a whole person. The people I worked with at Twitter – they’re very analytical, but they’re also deep and thoughtful – I feel like they deserved a charismatic spokesperson.
That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
I’m proud of winning the title with PSV. It’s something the fans deserved and something I wanted so bad as well.
Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved – and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.
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