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  • Flannery O'Connor It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
    Flannery O'Connor
    American writer and essayist (1925 - 1964)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bruce Cockburn It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Boman Irani It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any professional knowledge, and getting a photographer's job in a magazine was out of the question. So, armed with a Pentax K1000, I started going to various maidans of Mumbai, looking for subjects.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Bobby Charlton It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box.
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  • Bille August It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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  • Barry Marshall It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple antibiotic treatment could fix the problem.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Albert Einstein It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bill Vaughan It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Benazir Bhutto It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...
    Destinys daughter
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Boyle Roche It would surely be better... to give up not only a part, but, if necessary, even the whole, of our constitution, to preserve the remainder!
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Bertie Carvel It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of truth in the way someone else paints you, however subjective they might be.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • John Irving It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson It's been a constant struggle with my athletic career to identify myself as a child of God and understand that His love is unconditional for us; it's not conditional like fans, or coaches, or even myself.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Bill Gross It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 percent and perhaps even less if we have that fiscal cliff in December or January 2013.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Bill Sienkiewicz It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people and then copy them. I found it really hard to walk straight. My brother was always on at me for walking off the pavement. I guess I always expected people to bring me back into line.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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