Quotes with english-only

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  • Alice Miller I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Abbie Hoffman I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Burt Rutan I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Barry J. Farber I was the only one there I never heard of.
    Barry J. Farber
    American entrepreneur, sales consultant and author
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  • Bruce Springsteen I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Anthony Holden I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bruce Cockburn I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Anne Tyler I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Adolf Galland I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Daniel O'Connell I would walk from here to Drogheda and back to see the man who is blockhead enough to expect anything except injustice from an English Parliament.
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  • Baruch Spinoza I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • A. A. Milne I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.
    War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940)
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Bryan Ferry I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • James Thurber I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Jack Nicklaus I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
    Jack Nicklaus
    American golf player (1940 - )
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  • Bill Medley I'm a Santa Ana boy from 1940 to all my life. And Santa Ana was different only in the fact that Orange County was just small. Hell, I used to ride my motorcycle through the orange groves, and now it's tracts of homes.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Gore Vidal I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Brock Lesnar I'm always staying motivated because, as training camp goes on, practices become more intense, harder, and shorter. It's a mental thing, too, not only physical - you have to stay mentally sharp and stay focused on the task in front of you.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Bill Bailey I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. I actively seek it out.
    Part Troll
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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