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  • Alonzo Church I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.
    Alonzo Church
    American mathematician and logician (1903 - 1995)
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  • William Blake I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Aleister Crowley I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Burt Bacharach I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Oscar Wilde I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Paul E. Little I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.
    Paul E. Little
    American Christian author
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  • Bruce Oldfield I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in 'Vogue,' but it's far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • Bill Hicks I was in a cab in New York. The cab had a sign, Please do not smoke, Christ is our unseen guest. This guy was reaching. I figure, if he could overcome being nailed to a cross, I don't think a Marlboro Light's gonna faze him that much.
    Dark Poet
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Virginia Woolf I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Augusten Burroughs I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Busy Philipps I was in New York and I went to a meatball shop with my friend and there was paparazzi there and I thought, 'How did you know that someone was gonna come to this meatball shop?' But I was pregnant and I wanted a meatball sub and let me tell you, it was delicious.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Bill Hicks I was in the unenviable position of being for the war, but against the troops.
    Love, Laughter and Truth
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Aravind Adiga I was looking for the key for years. But the door was always open.
    The White Tiger (2008) 216
    Aravind Adiga
    Indo-Australian writer and journalist (1974 - )
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  • Voltaire I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Stephen Hawking I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Joan Didion I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.
    Blue Nights (2012) 24
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Al Spalding I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
    Al Spalding
    American baseball player, and baseball manager and businessman (1850 - 1915)
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  • Alexander Pope I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Aleister Crowley I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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