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  • Barry Eisler I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Bill Kreutzmann I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Bastian Schweinsteiger I'm so happy that I was able to make it to 120 games for Germany; 175 games would have been possible. I've had many great moments, but particularly the way the fans supported me and the road to the final in Rio.
    Bastian Schweinsteiger
    German professional footballer (1984 - )
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  • Bill Gates I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Ben Affleck I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Antoine Fuqua I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Ben Shahn I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Thomas Carlyle I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Al Unser I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.
    Al Unser
    American automobile racing driver (1939 - )
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  • Bill Walton I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Becki Newton I've managed to get some beautiful bags. I have a great collection, and so does my mother. My favourite is a purple one by Gucci, which I take everywhere!
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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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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  • Ben Brantley I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.
    Ben Brantley
    American theater critic and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Bill Moyers Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
    The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Flores If a country like Chile can fix its social security system, there is no reason a country as great as the United States... can't fix our Social Security system.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bernard Crick If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.
    In Defence Of Politics A Footnote To Rally The Academic, p. 179
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej If a great destruction occurs in Bangkok, then the country as a whole is also destroyed. In such a case, what is the point of anyone feeling proud to be the winner, when standing on a pile of ruins and rubble?
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • John Ruskin If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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