Quotes with down-on-his-luck

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  • Arthur Golden I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • James Taylor I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.
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  • Robert Frost I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • John Keats I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Bill Bailey I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all...
    Dandelion Mind
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley I would not fear nor wish my fate,
    But boldly say each night,
    To-morrow let my sun his beams display,
    Or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Booker T. Washington I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
    Up From Slavery (1901)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Buck Owens I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Bela Lugosi I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Burt Bacharach I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Berkeley Breathed I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Brooks Robinson I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.
    Brooks Robinson
    American professional baseball player (1937 - )
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Brooks Robinson I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
    Brooks Robinson
    American professional baseball player (1937 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg I'm a man who makes his own decisions and sticks with them; I think there's a lot of integrity in that.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Ben Marcus I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Bruce Sutter I'm certainly thankful for what the Cubs did for me. I respect their organization. It's the same way with the Atlanta Braves, an awfully fine organization. I respect everybody who's down there, and that's still where I live today. But the Cardinals represent the best years of my career.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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