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  • Alice Miller I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Al Pacino I was not prepared for fame. It hit me hard, and I did not have the capacity to cope.
    Al Pacino
    American actor and filmmaker (1940 - )
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  • Winston Churchill I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Charles M. Schwab I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Abel Ferrara I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
    Abel Ferrara
    American filmmaker (1951 - )
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  • Al Sharpton I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Burt Rutan I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Angela Carter I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Carrie Fisher I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Brooke Shields I was such a nerd, a complete geek, but then I was lucky enough to have a fancy career, where I can be like 'See, I'm not a nerd. Look, I'm in 'Vogue.'
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Kurt Vonnegut I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Hedy Lamarr I was the highest-priced and most important star in Hollywood, but I was 'difficult.'
    Popcorn in Paradise (1980)
    Hedy Lamarr
    Austrian-American actress and inventor (1914 - 2000)
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  • Steven Wright I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Richard Nixon I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Jonathan Miller I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
    Jonathan Miller
    English theatre and opera actor, author and television presenter (1934 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar I wasn't happy at the career I was at and wanted to try something else, and so I tried fighting, and it's working out pretty well. I set my own schedule; I have my own training facilities. I'm not traveling as much, and I'm at home every night.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • William Wycherley I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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  • Anthony Holden I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bryce Harper I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anything - just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That's how I've always been my whole life.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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