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  • Bernard Law Montgomery I want to impose on everyone that the bad times are over, they are finished! Our mandate from the Prime Minister is to destroy the Axis forces in North Africa...It can be done, and it will be done!
    Said to his troops in North Africa, promising the swift defeat of Rommel
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Anna Held I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Bruce Willis I wanted to sign up and fight with you guys, but they told me I was too old.
    Bruce Willis during a visit to the 101st Airborne Division in northern Iraq, September 25, 2003. [2]
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Alonzo Church I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.
    Alonzo Church
    American mathematician and logician (1903 - 1995)
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • Abel Ferrara I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
    Abel Ferrara
    American filmmaker (1951 - )
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  • Angela Carter I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Gloria Steinem I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Allan Carr I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Ronald Reagan I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Laurence Sterne I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Bill Hicks I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all.
    Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bob Richards I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • James Taylor I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.
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  • Richard Dawkins I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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