Quotes with also-ran

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  • A. J. Foyt My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
    A. J. Foyt
    American auto racing driver (1935 - )
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  • Bow Wow My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Bernard L. Schwartz My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd take me to business meetings, and I would listen to him talk with his workers and customers. We would also talk a lot about business over dinner.
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    American businessman (1925 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Buddy Valastro My kids are always in the kitchen with me - I bring them to the bakery and let them decorate cakes, and they also try to help me and my wife, Lisa, cook dinner at night.
    Buddy Valastro
    American baker and reality television personality (1977 - )
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  • Bar Refaeli My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even.
    Bar Refaeli
    Israeli model, actress, and entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Billie Lourd My mom made me watch 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was about 7 years old. When I was younger, I hated action movies and pretty much anything loud. So when she put it on, I covered my ears and ran out of the room.
    Billie Lourd
    American actress (1992 - )
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  • Ben van Berkel My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.
    Ben van Berkel
    Dutch architect
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  • Brian Austin Green My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Barack Obama My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Nature has set us so well in the center, that if we change one side of the balance, we change the other also. I act. This makes me believe that the springs in our brain are so adjusted that he who touches one touches also its contrary.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Epictetus Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return?
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • George Orwell No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Ehrlich No one heard about Bill Clinton on his first trip to New Hampshire. I showed Mike Huckabee around the state years before he ran, and no one knew him then, either.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • James Baldwin No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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