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I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away.
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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.
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I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
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I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
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I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.
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I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.
― Angelina Grimké
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Source: Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (1993) -
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
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I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
Source: 1989 speech on the history of the microcomputer industry. [1] -
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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I knew the youthfulness of the sixties: Talitha and Paul Getty lying on a starlit terrace in Marrakesh, beautiful and damned, and a whole generation assembled as if for eternity where the curtain of the past seemed to lift before an extraordinary future.
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I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
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I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.
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I leave before being left. I decide.
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