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  • Marguerite Duras I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Thomas Carlyle I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Mark Twain I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bruce Oldfield I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • Anne Tyler I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Buddy Rich I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Babe Ruth I copied Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.
    On Shoeless Joe Jackson, as quoted in Joe Jackson: A Biography (2004) by Kelly Boyer Sagert
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity, for the first time in its history, to operate our planet in such a manner as to support and accommodate all humanity at a substantially more advanced standard of living than any humans have ever experienced.
    Grunch of Giants (1983)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Henry Ford I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Anne Tyler I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Al Pacino I don't ever give my opinion. Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
    Al Pacino
    American actor and filmmaker (1940 - )
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  • Steffi Graf I don't ever look back. I look forward.
    Steffi Graf
    German tennis player (1969 - )
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  • Bruno Mars I don't ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, 'It sounds good!' It's got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Anne Ford I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.
    Anne Ford
    English musician and singer (1737 - 1824)
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  • Joseph Conrad I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Shirley Maclaine I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
    Shirley Maclaine
    American actress, singer and author (1934 - )
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  • Bruno Mars I don't think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it's something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems - members come and go - and some of the world's biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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