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  • Burgess Owens If you apologize to me, I look at it as an insult because my parents, my grandparents, my great-grandparents, like every other culture out there, did exactly what they needed to do. They worked hard, and they became part of the American way, and they earned the respect of Americans across the board. We need to do the same.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Quentin Crisp If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Robert Collier If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Bruce Catton In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Bill Flores It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Atom Egoyan It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Woody Allen It shows exactly what you can do if you're a total psychotic.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Jerry Seinfeld It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
    Jerry Seinfeld
    American comedian and actor (1954 - )
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  • Bonnie Bassler It's incorrect to think of bacteria as these asocial, single cells. They are individual cells, but they act in communities, exactly the way people do.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Bryan Burrough Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Philip Roth Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Bill Flores Let me tell you what changed my mind: it was when Donald Trump picked Mike Pence to be his running mate. I was convinced that Donald Trump knew exactly what he was doing, and he knew that was rounded out the ticket in many ways.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Ezra Pound Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Lauren Bacall Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
    Lauren Bacall
    American actress and singer (1924 - 2014)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Carine Roitfeld Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • James Baldwin Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bob Inglis Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.
    Bob Inglis
    American politician (1959 - )
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  • Tallulah Bankhead Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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