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  • Ben Zobrist It was like a heavyweight fight, man. Just blow for blow, everybody playing their heart out. The Indians never gave up either, and I can't believe we're finally standing, after 108 years, finally able to hoist the trophy.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Bill Paxton It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Caroline Shaw It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Mark Twain It was the schoolboy who said, ''Faith is believing what you know ain't so.''
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Albert Einstein It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
    The Human Side (1954)
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Raymond Williams It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.
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  • Joseph Brodsky It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Janet Frame It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.
    Janet Frame
    New Zealand author (1924 - 2004)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • William Shakespeare It's a bad cook who can't lick his own fingers.
    Romeo and Juliet 4, 2
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Antoine Fuqua It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Barry Goldwater It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
    Barry Goldwater
    American politician, businessman, and author (1909 - 1998)
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  • Anne Sullivan It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Antoine Fuqua It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Albert Camus It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Ben Shahn It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Richard Nixon It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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