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  • Bill Clinton People like you always help the far-right, because you like to hurt people, and you like to talk about how bad people are and all their personal failings.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Annie Dillard People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Jimmy Connors People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if I wasn't physically fit.
    Jimmy Connors
    American tennis player (1952 - )
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  • Boy George People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Lee Iacocca People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Paul Auster People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Bryce Harper People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Brihadaranyaka Upanishad People see his pleasure-ground; him no one sees at all.
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  • Bob Ross People see you on television, and they think you make the same amount of money that Clint Eastwood does. But this is PBS. All these shows are done for free.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • Oscar Wilde People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Clark Kenneth People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
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  • Walter Lippmann People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Euripides People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Bruce Forsyth People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Amy Tan People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • Barry Lopez People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Brad Delson People think when you get a record deal all your problems will go away. We know that the bigger we get, the more problems we'll have. I guess Puff Daddy was somewhat - what's the word? - prophetic in that respect.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Bode Miller People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot People want to see patterns in the world. It is how we evolved. We descended from those primates who were best at spotting the telltale pattern of a predator in the forest, or of food in the savannah. So important is this skill that we apply it everywhere, warranted or not.
    The (Mis)Behavior of Markets Ch. 12, p. 245
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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