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  • Carice van Houten When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
    Carice van Houten
    Dutch actress, singer and radio presenter (1976 - )
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  • Bob Newhart When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Queen Victoria When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Carson Daly When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Bjork When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Brendan Coyle When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'
    Brendan Coyle
    English-Irish actor (1962 - )
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  • Barkhad Abdi When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.
    Barkhad Abdi
    Somali–American actor and director (1985 - )
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Byron Howard When I was up in Washington state, I always thought, 'I'm going to go to Los Angeles where films are made and stories are told, and they're going to love me and welcome me with open arms.' But, there was no welcoming committee.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Bill Rancic When I'm interviewing someone, I want to make sure that he thought enough to take care of himself - to dress appropriately and to groom himself properly.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Dean Martin When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.
    Dean Martin
    American film actor and singer (1917 - 1995)
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  • Cass Sunstein When like-minded people, talking mostly with one another, end up thinking a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk... If you put a bunch of rebels in a room and ask them to discuss rebellion, they'll get more extreme.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Beck When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a beacon of hope for Africa.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Buddha When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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