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  • Kazuo Ishiguro After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
    Source: The Remains of the Day (2009) 244
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Casey Affleck After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Betty Carter After me there are no more jazz singers... It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.
    Betty Carter
    American jazz singer (1929 - 1998)
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  • Babe Ruth All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Bonnie Hunt All my brothers and sisters are really witty, and I would just sit back and enjoy them.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Lenny Bruce All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Andrea Dworkin All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Caitlin Doughty All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bryan Burrough All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • William E. Gladstone All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Toni Morrison All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Arthur Levitt Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Carl Lewis Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Ben Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
    And is a swelling, and the last affection
    A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
    Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
    All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
    and offereth violence to nature's self.
    Source: Catiline His Conspiracy
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Ben Stein Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Bill Klem An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.
    Bill Klem
    American professional baseball umpire (1874 - 1951)
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  • Bill Bryson And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Brandi Chastain And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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