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  • Betty Wright I've just learned that love is a very fleeting thing, so we - then we have it; we need to hold on to it but hold on to it in a gracious fashion. Not in the smothering but more so just a covering kind of love.
    Betty Wright
    American singer (1953 - 2020)
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  • Ben Simmons I've learned a lot just being around LeBron. People say things about him all the time, but he would never say anything back. That's what I learned from him: Don't retaliate to articles or pieces or to things that are said about me.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • Leo Burnett I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
    Leo Burnett
    American advertising executive (1891 - 1971)
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  • Martha Washington I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Barry Eisler I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Bijou Phillips I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.
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  • Peace Pilgrim I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Woody Allen I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bebe Neuwirth I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Beth Ditto I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Alberto Salazar I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.
    Alberto Salazar
    American track coach and long-distance runner (1958 - )
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  • B. B. King I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Ben Roethlisberger I've seen fathers criticizing their sons the moment a game's over. Not my dad. It doesn't matter if I threw an interception or a Hail Mary, he always says, 'Good job, son, I'm proud of you.' Then he shakes my hand and gives me a hug. Every time.
    Ben Roethlisberger
    American football player (1982 - )
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  • B. B. King I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Ben Brantley I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.
    Ben Brantley
    American theater critic and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Brunello Cucinelli I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Buzz Osborne I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Alberto Giacometti I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Baz Luhrmann I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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