Quotes with english-only

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  • Bryan Singer I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • David Malouf I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives.
    David Malouf
    Australian writer (1934 - )
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  • Ulysses S. Grant I know only two tunes. One them is ''Yankee Doodle'' and the other isn't.
    Ulysses S. Grant
    American Army general (1822 - 1885)
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  • Audre Lorde I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Booker T. Washington I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
    Up From Slavery (1901)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • George Eliot I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Malcolm Bradbury I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
    Malcolm Bradbury
    English author and academic (1932 - 2000)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Godfrey I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • George Washington Carver I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour and every moment of our lives, if we will only tune in and remain so.
    letter to Hubert W. Pelt (24-02-1930)
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bruce Dickinson I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • John Peel I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
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  • Peter Ackroyd I never read in bed, only in my study.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Charles Dickens I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Tom Hopkins I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.
    Tom Hopkins
    English professional footballer (1911 - )
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  • Ray Charles I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
    Ray Charles
    American singer, songwriter, pianist and composer (1918 - 2015)
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  • Winston Churchill I never worry about action, but only inaction.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Woodrow Wilson I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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