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  • Winston Churchill When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ben Zobrist When I move to second after playing right field, I feel like my action has gotten too deliberate, and I have to switch back into that quicker, boom-boom infield mode.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Alberto Moravia When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
    Alberto Moravia
    Italian writer (ps. by Alberto Pincherle) (1907 - 1990)
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  • Carl Weathers When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.
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  • Bryan Ferry When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Bobby Keys When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.
    Bobby Keys
    American saxophonist (1943 - 2014)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Boris Becker When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • C. C. H. Pounder When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.
    C. C. H. Pounder
    Guyanese–American actress
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  • Bonnie Hunt When I was in high school, I hid in the back seat of an old boyfriend's car when he was out with another girl. He finally found me, but not until after he had made out with her for an hour.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Bob Newhart When I was off TV, people would ask me to please come back, which I think was their way of saying, 'There's nothing out there for us.'
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler When I was young, I used to wear a lot of wigs, and I was running on stage at a gig and tripped over and it fell off. It was in the 1970s, and Swansea were doing really well in the league, and most of the team were there. I almost died, but I picked it up, put it back on my head and carried on.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Baltasar Kormakur When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Joan Didion When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.
    (2017)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Les Brown When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the ''freedom of the press'' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Malcolm X When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Ben Zobrist When the ball was hit, my first reaction as a shortstop was always go in the direction of the ball. You can't do that at first base. You go too far in that direction, and it's hard to scurry back and be ready to pick the throw.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Burt Rutan When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, that's nonsense!' so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Bode Miller When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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