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  • William Wordsworth Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Bill Pascrell House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Henry J. Kaiser I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.
    Henry J. Kaiser
    American industrialist (1882 - 1967)
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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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  • David Herbert Lawrence I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Billie Holiday I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Brooke Shields I don't like to leave my children for long periods of time. It's made me more picky about roles that are close, especially on television.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Ann Beattie I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Anne Rice I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Warren Buffett I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Bruce Nauman I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Anne McCaffrey I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Cormac McCarthy I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.
    No Country for Old Men (2007) 295
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
    Player Piano
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Benny Green I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Benjamin Bratt I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth I'm the Joker full of jest, I play my cards close to my chest; but here's a pair that's worth revealing, come on dollies, do your dealing!
    Play Your Cards Right When introducing his two Dolly Dealers on the olde
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Brendan Fraser Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning).
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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