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  • Anita Hill I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • John Donne I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Abdurrahman Wahid I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.
    Abdurrahman Wahid
    Indonesian politican and Muslim leader (1940 - 2009)
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  • Virgil I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Woody Allen I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Woody Allen I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Ang Lee I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Anita Roddick I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Beck I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.
    Source: Rolling Stone magazine, 1996
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Derek Walcott I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.
    Derek Walcott
    Saint Lucian poet and playwright, winner Nobel Prize in Literature (1930 - 2017)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I try to go with the flow and have faith that everything is going to work out.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Anita Desai I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Antonio Gramsci I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
    Antonio Gramsci
    Italian writer, politician and political scientist (1891 - 1937)
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  • Philip Roth I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Edward Gibbon I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Arthur Capper I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Adolf Hitler I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Anish Kapoor I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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