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  • Amy Hempel I am not quite myself, I think. But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.
    Rick Moody (2007) 236
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Byron Dorgan I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
    The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (2011) 97
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Edward F. Halifax I am of an Opinion, in which I am every Day more confirmed by Observation, that Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with Men, or else all the Obligations in the World will not create it. An outward Show may be made to satisfy Decency, and to prevent Reproach; but a real Sense of a kind thing is a Gift of Nature, and never was, nor can be acquired.
    Works (1912)
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • E. B. White I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Mark Twain I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Daisy Ashford I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.
    Daisy Ashford
    English writer (1881 - 1972)
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Laurence Sterne I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Winston Churchill I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Albert J. Nock I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Bruce Dickinson I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Vachel Lindsay I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
    Vachel Lindsay
    American poet (1879 - 1931)
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  • Arsene Wenger I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Angelina Grimke I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Busta Rhymes I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Frantz Fanon I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
    Frantz Fanon
    French psychiatrist, Algerian freedom fighter and writer (1925 - 1961)
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  • Ace Frehley I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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