Quotes with could

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  • Anita Hill I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Alice Munro I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was 'call attention to yourself,' or 'think you were smart.'
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
    Grunch of Giants (1983)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bill Hicks I was in a cab in New York. The cab had a sign, Please do not smoke, Christ is our unseen guest. This guy was reaching. I figure, if he could overcome being nailed to a cross, I don't think a Marlboro Light's gonna faze him that much.
    Dark Poet
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Abbey Lincoln I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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  • Al Spalding I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
    Al Spalding
    American baseball player, and baseball manager and businessman (1850 - 1915)
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  • Annie Leibovitz I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Barbara Walters I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Samuel Pepys I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • William Shakespeare I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
    Much Ado About Nothing 2, 1
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bill Hicks I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all.
    Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bernard Berenson I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Bruno Mars I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Annie Leibovitz I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Khaled Hosseini I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Bob Richards I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Neil Kinnock I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.
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  • Elisabeth Gaskell I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!
    Elisabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Luigi Pirandello I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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