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  • Bob Diamond My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticise compensation for individuals in isolation at, say, BarCap, individuals who don't work in the U.K. and are competing with U.S., German or Asian banks, they should look at all these factors.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Anne Rice My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Barbara Park My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Ben Stiller My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.
    Ben Stiller
    American actor, comedian, film producer, film director, and writer (1965 - )
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  • Bill Rancic My parents were out of town and sent me to stay at my grandma's house. That's where I learned how to make pancakes. I served them to all the old ladies who lived on her block. After the meal, they each left a $5 bill next to their plates. I thought, 'Hey, I'm onto something here.'
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Bonnie Hammer My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.
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  • Bette Davis My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Ray Bradbury My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Britney Spears My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.
    on her web site, October 2004
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Betty Cuthbert My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.
    Betty Cuthbert
    Australian athlete (1938 - 2017)
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  • Bode Miller My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Anthony Doerr My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Beth Ditto My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • H. Youngman My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it's feet first!
    H. Youngman
    American comedian and violinist (1906 - 1998)
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  • Blair Underwood My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Bernard Sahlins My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage, is in the service of advancing a story, and in that sense, it's all writing. In that sense we, while acting, write.
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  • Camille Paglia My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Billy Corgan My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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