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  • St. Edward Aubyn You can only give things up once they start to let you down.
    The Patrick Melrose Novels (2014) 285
    St. Edward Aubyn
    English writer and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bjarke Ingels You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Billie Holiday You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • William Boetcker You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
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  • C. A. R. Hoare You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.
    C. A. R. Hoare
    British computer scientist
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  • Aaron Copland You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Brendan Coyle You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.
    Brendan Coyle
    English-Irish actor (1962 - )
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  • Bob Dylan You got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down, you just stood there grinning.
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • John Lennon You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Charles III You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
    Charles III
    King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (1948 - )
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  • Carol Burnett You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Louise Erdrich You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
    The Painted Drum (2005)
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Bea Arthur You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Barry McGuire You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Buddy Hackett You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Mary Pickford You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ''Failure'' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
    Mary Pickford
    Canadian film and theater actress and film producer (1892 - 1979)
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  • Buzz Aldrin You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at Earth. Accordingly, the mass of these required propellants, in short, drives our need for innovative launch vehicles.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Anne Perry You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Bill Flores You won't find any volatile quotes out in the press where I've run the team down publicly.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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