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It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff. -- Jasmine Guinness
I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes. -- Rob Mariano
Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live only in private clubs and at charity events, where she presumably believed the pressure on her was less intense. -- Scott Stossel
Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them. -- Sally Quinn
I've long wanted to find a charitable cause to really get involved with and be passionate about. I get invited to a lot of charity events to sing, and I am happy to help and bring a source of entertainment, but I'm sort of disconnected from them. -- Katharine McPhee
I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography. -- Bill Wyman
I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society. -- Yani Tseng
My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity. -- Joely Fisher
I definitely only want to do charity work that I'm hands-on involved in. I don't want to get a dress on and go to a stupid event. -- Erin Heatherton
I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It's very addictive. It's a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh. -- Armando Iannucci
We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Children's Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didn't raise a significant amount of money. -- Tom Kite
We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can. -- Dan Pallotta
There are so many fun charity festivals in the Hamptons. We enjoy so many fun events for kids such as Kidsfest. We also go to Super Saturday. We like to chill out and go out by the pool. We do things that are fun for kids and good for charity. -- Kelly Rutherford
I moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Office' became successful, and the charity/cocktail party circuit is really not my scene. But I played golf, and I started getting invited to charity golf events, and I just fell in love with the game ten-fold, and at a lot of these events, there were athletes. -- Brian Baumgartner
If I'm doing an event, if it's a charity event, where it's a walk-around event, where I gotta put a thousand small plates out in the course of a four-hour event, I gotta make sure I can do something that I know I can produce, that's going to be consistent and good all night long. -- Tom Colicchio
Last week I was in London at an awards show, then I flew home and was in an RV park with my wife and kids in our motorhome, this week I'm in NY doing a charity event, and tomorrow I'll be coaching my daughters soccer practice. I guess the range of roles I play on film stem from the range of roles I play in real life. -- Peter Facinelli
I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar. -- Marco Pierre White
There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding. -- William McIlvanney

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