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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Caitlin Rose If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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  • Brett Hoebel If I could give one tip for people - it's not an exercise or nutrition regimen. It's to walk your talk and believe in yourself, because at the end of the day, the dumbbell and diet don't get you in shape. It's your accountability to your word.
    Brett Hoebel
    American personal trainer
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  • Caroline Wozniacki If I didn't love tennis, I wouldn't be playing. That's also why I don't know how long I will be playing because if I start feeling like this is not what I want to do anymore, that there's not really any reason anymore.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Anne Seward If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.
    Anne Seward
    English poet (1742 - 1809)
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  • William Faulkner If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Brigham Young If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Brad Feld If I have a golden touch, I'd also say that I have the opposite of whatever a golden touch is, because I've had a lot of things fail. I think part of the experience of being successful is that you have to have a lot of stuff not work.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Arthur Miller If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • William Hazlitt If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Samuel Johnson If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Bonnie McKee If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • Peter Townshend If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.
    Peter Townshend
    English musician, singer, songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Bob Seger If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bret Easton Ellis If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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