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  • Abraham Lincoln My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Cary Grant My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.
    Cary Grant
    English-born American actor (1904 - 1986)
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  • Cary Grant My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'
    Cary Grant
    English-born American actor (1904 - 1986)
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  • Broderick Crawford My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
    Broderick Crawford
    American actor (1911 - 1986)
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  • Aaron Klug My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Bill Burr My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's hilarious.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Aaron Carter My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
    Aaron Carter
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor (1987 - )
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  • Anne Dudley My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Huey Newton My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Olive Schreiner My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • John F. Kennedy My fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.
    Inaugural, 20-01-1961
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bobby Moynihan My first 'SNL' episode was with Michael Phelps and Lil Wayne. And if you go back and watch the monologue - it was supposed to feature Barack Obama, but we couldn't get him - it was with William Shatner. But if you watch it, Guy Fieri is sitting in the front row.
    Bobby Moynihan
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1977 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber.' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Beth Henley My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Ang Lee My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aeschylus My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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