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Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men.
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MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography (1978 edition), U of Nebraska Press -
My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
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My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.
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My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
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My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at an early age.
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
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My father had all these great names for our cows. Bossy and Daisy and Petunia and Turnip. One of my jobs was to round up the cows before milking. I'd go out back with the dog and bring them in.
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My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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My grandmother and my father always said I would end up as a missionary. Well, I feel like I am one now.
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My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
Buffalo Bills Life Story: An Autobiography (1920 edition), Courier Dover Publications
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