Quotes with left-handed

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  • Tryon Edwards What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • E. M. Cioran What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Gerard Manley Hopkins What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
    Gerard Manley Hopkins
    English poet and Jesuit (1844 - 1889)
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  • Hilaire Belloc When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Cass Sunstein When government programs aren't working, those on the Left tend to support more funding, while those on the Right want to scrap them altogether. It is better to ask whether the problem is complexity and poor design. We can solve those problems - sometimes without spending a penny.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Ben Chaplin When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you're judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you're from.
    Ben Chaplin
    English actor, director and writer (1969 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Brenda Blethyn When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.
    Brenda Blethyn
    English actress (1946 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Ben Nicholson When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Carmen Laforet When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.
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  • Butch Trucks When I play, I stare at the left hand of whoever is playing lead. And I get to know what people are playing well enough that when they start going somewhere, once they arrive, I'm already there.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Ang Lee When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Erma Bombeck When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, ''I used everything you gave me.''.
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • Caitriona Balfe When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
    Caitriona Balfe
    Irish actress, producer and former (1979 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary. It is difficult to say where I come from.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • B. B. King When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Samuel Butler When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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