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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.
    Source: 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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  • Ann Beattie I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Louis Aragon I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Bayazid Bastami I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bryan Batt I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Armstrong Williams I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Alice Walker I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Buck Owens I enjoyed the Hee Haw people, but from 1980 on I didn't enjoy it and thought about leavin', and thought, hell, it's an easy job and pays wonderful. I kinda just prostituted myself for their money.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Anne Tyler I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Milan Kundera I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.
    Source: Farewell Waltz (1976)
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Marianne Williamson I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us
    Marianne Williamson
    American writer (1952 - )
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  • Burton Rascoe I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
    Source: Contemporary Reminiscences in Arts & Decoration, Vol. 26 (1927)
    Burton Rascoe
     
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  • Andy Hertzfeld I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry I had beautiful bikes and I was really into it. I just thought it was really glamorous.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Harriet Tubman I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
    Harriet Tubman
    American abolitionist and humanitarian (1822 - 1913)
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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.
    Source: As quoted in The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators (1984)
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • William Hazlitt I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Germaine Greer I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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