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  • Beth Ditto I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Carol Shields I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
    Middlesex (2003) 217
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Ben Affleck I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Al Pacino I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.
    Al Pacino
    American actor and filmmaker (1940 - )
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  • Buddy Guy I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.
    Buddy Guy
    American blues guitarist and singer (1936 - )
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  • Bryan White I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Ted Turner I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
    Ted Turner
    American media mogul and philanthropist (1938 - )
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  • Margaret Atwood I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
    Margaret Atwood
    Canadian writer, poet, criticus (1939 - )
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  • John Barrymore I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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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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  • Barack Obama I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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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. B. King I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Noel Coward I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
    Noel Coward
    British writer (1899 - 1973)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine - and even, alas! Theology - from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Richard Armour I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
    Richard Armour
    American poet and author (1906 - 1989)
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  • Buzz Osborne I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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