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  • Aaron Sorkin There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment - anywhere.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • William E. Gladstone There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Mother Teresa There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Boris Kodjoe There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Omar Khayyam There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Barry McGuire There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Britt Daniel There was a very obnoxious phase for Axl Rose. I'm sure if I had experienced as much success as he had, I would probably be a third as obnoxious. I'd probably be obnoxious, too. But not that much.
    Britt Daniel
    American musician (1971 - )
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  • Bret Harte There was commotion in Roaring Camp. It could not have been a fight, for in 1850 that was not novel enough to have called together the entire settlement.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Olive Schreiner There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Buzz Aldrin There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Butch Trucks There will always be kids in every generation that understand that Lady Gaga is not music, it's theater.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Brody Jenner There will be a time very shortly that I just might not be in front of the camera at all, and I might just be behind the scenes. I love doing television, though. I don't necessarily love being in front of the camera.
    Brody Jenner
    American television personality, disc jockey and model (1983 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Nikki Giovanni There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
    Nikki Giovanni
    American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator (1943 - )
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  • Robert J. Ringer There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them.
    Robert J. Ringer
    American writer
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  • Cass Sunstein There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in academic life if you say things that are common sense and people nod their heads, it's not very useful. You're not adding anything.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Billy Joel There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Toni Morrison There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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