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  • Helen Rowland It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
    Source: A Guide to Men (1922)
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Frank Crane It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.
    Frank Crane
    American actor
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  • Robert Peel It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
    Robert Peel
    English politician and Prime Minister (1788 - 1850)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings It takes three to make a child.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Louisa May Alcott It takes two flints to make a fire.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Israel Zangwill It takes two men to make a brother.
    Israel Zangwill
    British writer (1864 - 1926)
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  • Herbert Louis 1st Viscount Samuel It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
    Herbert Louis 1st Viscount Samuel
    British politician and diplomat (1870 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John F. Kennedy It takes two to make peace.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Caspar Weinberger It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
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  • Raymond Chandler It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Bille August It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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  • Brandon Routh It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.
    Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Buddy Wakefield It was not my intention to make such a production of the emptiness between us, playing tuba on the tombstone of a soprano to try to keep some dead singer's perspective alive. It's just that I could have swore you had sung me a love song back there; and that you meant it.
    Source: Poetry Hurling Crowbirds at Mockingbars
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and friends. But the 2008 elections were fraudulent, so I decided to finance the opposition to make them stronger.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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  • Ornette Coleman It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
    Ornette Coleman
    American jazz musician (1930 - 2015)
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  • Caitlin Rose It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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  • Ben Harper It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Carlos Ghosn It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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