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I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
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I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.
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I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.
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I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
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I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts.
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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.
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I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.
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I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.
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I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
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I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.
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I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.
Source: Babe Ruth: his life and time by Paul Adomites, p. 172 -
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way: The eye's a better pupil and more willing than the ear, fine counsel is confusing, but example's always clear.
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