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  • Buck Owens I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?'
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Lord Arthur Balfour I never forgive, but I always forget.
    Lord Arthur Balfour
    British statesman (1848 - 1930)
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  • Adam Sandler I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Sir John Vanbrugh I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for 'Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another.
    Sir John Vanbrugh
    English architect and dramatist (1664 - 1726)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge I never hear parents exclaim impatiently, Children, you must no make so much noise, that I do not think how soon the time may come when, beside the vacant seat, those parents would give all the world, could they hear once more the ringing laughter which once so disturbed them.
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Billie Holiday I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Bruce Dickinson I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Charles M. Schulz I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.
    Charles M. Schulz
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Jonathan Swift I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Tom Hopkins I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.
    Tom Hopkins
    English professional footballer (1911 - )
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  • Bryan Adams I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride would never have allowed me to.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Clarence Darrow I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Barry Cornwall I never was on the dull, tame shore,
    But I loved the great sea more and more.
    The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Bryan Procter I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
    Bryan Procter
    English poet (1787 - 1874)
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  • Jonathan Swift I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Winston Churchill I never worry about action, but only inaction.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Jane Porter I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellowcreature.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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  • Walt Whitman I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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