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  • Edgar A. Guest I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way: The eye's a better pupil and more willing than the ear, fine counsel is confusing, but example's always clear.
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  • Bella Heathcote I'd say the majority of my friends are Australians, although I have some good American friends, but I think with Aussies, we just get it. We don't take each other too seriously, which is a relief.
    Bella Heathcote
    Australian actress (1987 - )
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  • Bill Bryson I'd turn on the lights, but they're blown. I'd offer you a seat, but there isn't one. I'd offer you a drink from the minibar, but there doesn't appear to be one. It certainly is basic. Basic? It's a bloody cell!
    In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • William Shakespeare I'll never be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand as if a man were author of himself and knew no other kin.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Becky Stark I'll never stop a bullet but a bullet might stop me.
    I'll never drink the ocean but the ocean might drink me.
    And I'll never raise a portrait to a gentle man in blue
    And I'll never sing a love song for a love that isn't true. I love how the garden grows
    And I love the garden rose.
    Imagine Our Love Garden Rose
    Becky Stark
    American artist,  singer and entertainer
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  • Barry Hannah I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Berenice Marlohe I'm 50% Asian actually, so yes I was born in Paris but I feel more international than French so I can't talk about French women.
    Berenice Marlohe
    French actress
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  • James Thurber I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bill Rancic I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Ben Simmons I'm a big guy, but I play with a guard mentality. I got that from my dad, and it's always stayed with me.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • John Millington Synge I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
    John Millington Synge
    Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer (1871 - 1909)
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  • Barbara Bush I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Bill Budge I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.
    Bill Budge
    American video game programmer and designer (1954 - )
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  • Byron Katie I'm a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.
    Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
    Byron Katie
    American speaker and author (1942 - )
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  • Bill Murray I'm a nut, but not just a nut.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Antonio Gramsci I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
    Antonio Gramsci
    Italian writer, politician and political scientist (1891 - 1937)
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  • Bianca Lawson I'm a pretty low key person when it comes to style, I love to be comfortable all the time. I love getting dressed up when I'm going out. But most of the time, I just like to be comfortable. It's really annoying to everyone in my life, but I love it.
    Bianca Lawson
    American actress (1979 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bertie Carvel I'm a socialist. I'm amazed at how the spirit of socialism is alive and well in New York. I had always thought I wouldn't want to be here without a lot of money, but I was wrong about that.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Betty Grable I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.
    Betty Grable
    American actress, model, and singer (1916 - 1973)
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