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  • Bryce Dallas Howard It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Barbara Bush It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Ben Shapiro It was the Obama administration that cut a faux deal with the Iranians that will not disarm Iran of its nuclear capabilities, and will in fact accelerate their nuclear development.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Henrik Ibsen It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Mark Twain It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Albert Einstein It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
    The Human Side (1954)
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Raymond Williams It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.
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  • Bob Geldof It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing.... We made giving exciting.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Angela Merkel It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Jane Austen It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Don Marquis It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Carlos Ghosn It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Brad Sherman It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Benazir Bhutto It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...
    Destinys daughter
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • A. N. Wilson It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Heraclitus It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Ben E. King It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Boyle Roche It would surely be better... to give up not only a part, but, if necessary, even the whole, of our constitution, to preserve the remainder!
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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