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Quotes 601 till 620 of 1835.

  • Bill Engvall I'm a California Angels fan because that's the first game my dad took me to see, and they stuck with me.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Al Goldstein I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Busta Rhymes I'm a fan of making films. Whether I'm on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is performing for the people. I'd like to do more acting.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Barbara Bush I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I'm convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we're eventually going to run out of money. But what if we send people the first time and they don't come back? What if they stay there?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Malcolm X I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Alan Alda I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Ace Frehley I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Bill Gates I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Baltasar Kormakur I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Bill Rancic I've been a runner a long time. When I first got into it, I started doing small triathlons in Chicago, and I just did it to get in shape. When I got out of college, I put on a few pounds like everybody does. I did it when I was in my early 20s, but I never really did any long runs.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Ben Affleck I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Beth Gutcheon I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don't try to protect them in ways that aren't good for the story.
    Beth Gutcheon
     
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  • Aaron Carter I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
    Aaron Carter
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor (1987 - )
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  • Bart Stupak I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Barry Humphries I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Alberto Salazar I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.
    Alberto Salazar
    American track coach and long-distance runner (1958 - )
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  • Ben Roethlisberger I've seen fathers criticizing their sons the moment a game's over. Not my dad. It doesn't matter if I threw an interception or a Hail Mary, he always says, 'Good job, son, I'm proud of you.' Then he shakes my hand and gives me a hug. Every time.
    Ben Roethlisberger
    American football player (1982 - )
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  • B. C. Forbes Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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