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  • Assata Shakur I couldn't see how we could seriously struggle without having a strong sense of collectivity, without being responsible FOR each other and TO each other.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 183
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Christopher Marlowe I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I created a fitness club with five friends. We have weekly check-ins and a reward system - and group penalties if one of us slacks off.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Anthony Holden I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • John H. Johnson I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.
    John H. Johnson
    American businessman and publisher (1918 - 2005)
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  • Adam Clayton I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Louis Aragon I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Bayazid Bastami I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
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  • Abraham Lincoln I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Edith Wharton I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • David Livingstone I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
    David Livingstone
    Scottish explorer, Christian Congregationalist and missionary (1813 - 1873)
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  • Homer I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Dudley Nichols I devoutly believe it is the writer who has matured the film medium more than anyone else in Hollywood. Even when he knew nothing about his work, he brought at least knowledge of life and a more grown-up mind, a maturer feeling about the human being.
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  • Bruce Cockburn I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I did a play in New York at the public theater, a Shakespeare play, and M. Night Shyamalan, who is the writer/director of 'The Village,' came and saw me in the play and asked to go to lunch afterwards.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Ang Lee I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Anne Stevenson I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Tony Benn I did not enter the labor Party forty-seven years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr. Mori, Dr. Gallup and Mr. Harris.
    Tony Benn
    British Labor politician (1925 - 2014)
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  • Imelda Marcos I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.
    Imelda Marcos
    Filipino politician and first lady (1929 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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