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  • Brad Wenstrup My district goes a long ways across the southern part of Ohio, so just the opportunity to get to know so many people is a highlight itself, win or lose.
    Brad Wenstrup
    American politician, <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Reserve" class="mw-redirect&# (1958 - )
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  • Barry Lopez My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Marianne Moore My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Barbara Cooney My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.
    Barbara Cooney
    American writer and illustrator (1917 - 2000)
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  • Bob Menendez My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Billy Idol My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.
    Billy Idol
    English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor (1955 - )
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Adam Baldwin My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
    Adam Baldwin
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Bryant Gumbel My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Beth Ditto My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Ben Elliot My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Armistead Maupin My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Bob Beamon My participation in the Art of the Olympians is a natural extension of my athletic career. I find creating a piece of art in many respects mirrors my long jumping efforts illustrating that hard work and inspiration will always be the foundation for success.
    Bob Beamon
    American track and field athlete (1946 - )
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  • Anthony Doerr My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Beverly Sills My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • E. M. Cioran Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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