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  • Sir Isaac Newton I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • George Eliot I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Lord George Byron I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Voltaire I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.
    (2011)
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it's coming out of something and then evolving into something.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Anne Stevenson I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Buddy Rich I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Eddie Murphy I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.
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  • William Butler Yeats I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Busy Philipps I think it's important for kids to express themselves with bad fashion. I struggle a little bit now because I have a daughter and I feel with fashion, like they're sexualizing the kids so young. Little kids in high heels and that kind of thing is really difficult for me to wrap my head around.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I think like any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself, you’d want to try even harder to make it work.
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  • Burn Gorman I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; you're actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that.
    Burn Gorman
    British actor and musician (1974 - )
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  • Henry James I think patriotism is like charity - it begins at home.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Augusten Burroughs I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Mark Haddon I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2005) p. 34
    Mark Haddon
    English writer and illustrator (1962 - )
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