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  • Arthur Capper I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I want to be all used up when I die.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Joseph Heller I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
    Joseph Heller
    American author (1923 - 1999)
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  • Anne Rice I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
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    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Katherine Mansfield I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Bruce Cockburn I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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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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  • Anna Freud I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Allan Carr I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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  • Abbey Lincoln I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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  • Alanis Morissette I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Woody Allen I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Arthur Rock I was one of the founders in, in that, the three of us all had the, had the founder's stock.
    Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Ann Patchett I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Bunker Roy I went to a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and it almost killed me. I was all set to be a diplomat, teacher, doctor - all laid out.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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