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I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
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I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
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I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.
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I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.
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I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.
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I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.
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I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof.
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I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Celebrating Change: Key Speeches of President-Elect Barack Obama, From October 2002 to November 2008 -
I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.
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I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
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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.
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I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
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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.
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I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
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I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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)
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